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Nagios not sending notification for my services. I have two service called PING and STATUS in nagios localhost.

PING service check host availability using ping command and STATUS service get the SNMP traps from remote machine.

Sometimes i getting email for PING service but STATUS service not getting any mail. PING service also not sending mail always. Below all of my configuration files.

localhost.cfg

define host{
use               linux-server
host_name         TESTHOST
alias             snmp_agent
address           10.10.62.5
}
define service{
use                             local-service        
host_name                       TESTHOST
service_description             PING
check_command                   mailtest
notifications_enabled           1
}
define service{ 
host_name                 TESTHOST    
service_description       STATUS  
is_volatile               1
check_freshness           1       
check_command             cagent!5        
max_check_attempts        4
normal_check_interval     1
retry_check_interval      1
active_checks_enabled     0   
passive_checks_enabled    1   
check_period              24x7    
notification_interval     20      
notification_period       24x7    
notification_options      w,u,c   
notifications_enabled     1
flap_detection_enabled    0
}

contacts.cfg

define contact{
contact_name        nagiosadmin                 
use                 generic-contact             
alias               Nagios Admin                 
email               [email protected]                    
}
define contactgroup{
contactgroup_name   admins
alias               Nagios Administrators
members             nagiosadmin
}

I using ssmtp mail server to send mail. configuration file below

ssmtp.conf

[email protected]
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
rewriteDomain=gmail.com
hostname=sujin
UseTLS=YES
UseSTARTTLS=YES
AuthMethod=LOGIN
[email protected]  
AuthPass=mailpassword
FromLineOverride=YES
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  • fwiw, normal_check_interval and retry_check_interval are deprecated/2.x syntax.
    – Keith
    Apr 5, 2013 at 20:53
  • @Keith - both options are still supported in the latest 3.5.0 core, and prob will be for some time.
    – Jim Black
    Apr 7, 2013 at 15:00
  • yes, that's what 'deprecated' means
    – Keith
    Apr 10, 2013 at 21:11

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You are getting emails for PING because you appear to have used your email notification command (mailtest) as the check_command:

define service{
    use                             local-service        
    host_name                       TESTHOST
    service_description             PING
    check_command                   mailtest       ; <<<
    notifications_enabled           1
}

The check_command for PING would conventionally be a check_ping command object. The command to send notifications is a property of a contact object.

You don't have active checks enabled for STATUS, so Nagios will never schedule a check for that service (it will rely on NRPE or NRDP or some other external process). That's probably not what you want.

You do not appear to have associated any contact_groups with either your service or your host objects. However, the configuration you have added is really only part of the total configuration, you have not shown the default object templates, so I cannot say what has been inherited.

You seem to be having trouble understanding the Nagios object model, it's a little closer to programming than it is to configuration. The diagram here should help you understand this problem (it's a little old, and for Nagios 2, but it's a good starting point).

The Nagios documentation is accurate but quite concise (or terse), it's not great for learning from scratch, try this tutorial: http://users.telenet.be/mydotcom/howto/nagios/index.html

Once you get a better understanding on the object concept you can peek into the objects.cache file and see all of your objects defined completely (this is equivalent to the configuration view in the web UI, but easier to understand if you are editing the configuration files directly).

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  • This is good advice. It can be summed up by "read everything in The Basics section of the Nagios docs".
    – Keith
    Apr 5, 2013 at 20:52

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