[Cialug] Nagios Notifications

[Jonathan C. Bailey]

We're looking at replacing Big Brother with Nagios for network monitoring. Nagios has been great so far, but there is one thing I can't figure out... When notifications are sent, Nagios notifies us of *all* services that are down, each with an individual message. This is fine for services on different parts of the network, but very annoying for more core components (ex: switches). In the case of a switch being down, we'd rather be notified of a count of downstream devices that are down rather than a message for each one. Does anyone have an idea if this is possible with Nagios or a different notification plugin?

Jonathan Bailey
Webmaster, Marshall County, Iowa
E: jbailey at co.marshall.ia.us
A: 1 E Main St, Marshalltown, IA 50158