[Cialug] Nagios Notifications

[Jonathan C. Bailey]

I realize that.. I'm looking for a way to not get notified if all the children are also down.. Example:

Lets say hub-rack1 has 8 servers on it....

hub-rack1 fails ping, but all servers pass = email hub-rack1 unreachable (0 children down)

...or...

hub-rack1 fails ping, all servers on it are down = email hub-rack1 unreachable (8 children down)

I'm just looking to trim down the "obvious" host down e-mails..

Jonathan Bailey
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Weis" <djweis at internetsolver.com>
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 9:46:06 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Nagios Notifications


On Sun, 27 May 2007, Jonathan C. Bailey wrote:

> 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?

Look at the parent field on the host. You can set dependencies that way.

dave

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