Linux – Nagios has stopped sending notifications

I figured it out! My setup was correct afterall. Here's what was happening:

Triggers are only set when a state changes, therefore all my triggers were either false OR true and were not changing state as the items I was monitoring were not changing state either.

To successfully test my triggers, I had to do this:

1. Make an item to ping a server every 5 sec (you can just use a default template item but I wanted results fast...)

2. Make an action for my server which gets executed if:

   Trigger severity >= "Warning" AND Host = "My Server"

3. I then created a trigger which gets set if ping = 1 (which it always does...) and volia! I received an email

The problem I was having was that by creating my "test trigger" before my "test alert" the trigger was already getting set before my alert was saved. And so... i had no idea why I wasn't seeing any notifications.

You need to configure contacts or contact_groups in the host/service definition. I normally create a template host and service and then override using inheritance.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#host http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#service http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html