hey, i have been noticing that instead of having pages that say exactly what is going on, i just get an “UP” page with a “PROBLEM” but it does not say what the problem is.
For example today when I came in one of the servers had a drive that was almost at capacity. Instead of getting a message saying that the disk was at 99% I got a page that says:
Subject: Host UP alert for tflserver!
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:48:19 -0600 (CST)
***** Nagios *****
Notification Type: PROBLEM
Host: tflserver
State: UP
Address: 192.168.100.2
Info: PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.25 ms
You know what? i actually use nagiosQL 2005. It would seem that I just left the Event handler blank. I changed it to notify-by-email. I bet that fixes it. Thanks!
Hmm… Fixed that and still having the same problem. I am using a monitored service instead of the disk now because I can stop it to test if the notification is working proper
Perhaps, as Luca suggested, there’s something wrong with your notify-by-email command. You could try posting it here and letting us have a look at it. However, I would guess there’s something more to your problem, since you should just be using macros to define your e-mail notification ($HOSTSTATE$, $SERVICEOUTPUT$, etc.).
No, I also get down alerts… It seems like the only alert that is working is the check_ping plugin as far as notifacations are concerned. But for example if a disk gets twards full or a service stops, I still get a notifacation, but it just says host up and “PROBLEM”…
(sorry about the long pause here, was out sick for a couple days)
evidently you got the answer from another forum post, since I don’t see my suggestion in this one. But yea, the first thing I was going to say was “why are you using an eventhandler for a notification?” hehe