[Cialug] Nagios Notifications

[Dave Weis]

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

Yes, you want parent and child:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:JMAvmXYQElkJ:nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php%3Fprint%3Dtrue%26faq_id%3D145%26expand%3Dtrue%26showdesc%3Dtrue+nagios+configuration+parent&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Their site seems to be having problems, if it's back you can use
http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=145

dave

>
> ----- 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
>
>

-- 
Dave Weis
djweis at internetsolver.com
http://www.internetsolver.com/