aggregated status messages

[Shayne Lebrun]

Look at it this way.  One of my wireless subnets just went to hell; tripped
'service critical' messages for five or six servers, as the ping RTA time
suddenly shot up.  So I got five emails.  I'd rather have gotten one email
with five entries.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Carroll, Jim P
[Contractor]
  Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 2:48 PM
  To: 'Shayne Lebrun'; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
  Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] aggregated status messages


  Read up on the 'parents' directive.  Sounds like this will do exactly what
you're looking for.  (This was one of the main reasons we switched from BB
to Nagios.)

  http://nagios.webdev.sprintspectrum.com/nagios/docs/xodtemplate.html#host

  jc
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Shayne Lebrun [mailto:slebrun at muskoka.com]
    Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:33 AM
    To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
    Subject: [Nagios-users] aggregated status messages


    One thing I'd love to see from Nagios would be the ability to have
aggregated status messages; I'd like to be able to tell it that when it
feels the need to send a status message, it should tell me what (if
anything) is already (still) down, what (if anything) has just come back up,
and what (if anything) has just gone down.

    That way, if a satellite router goes down, I get one email saying
'routerX down, hosts a,b,c,d,e,f,g now unreachable' instead of getting eight
or nine emails.  Also, if a subnet goes down, but things are coming back up
one by one, I can tell which is still down and which is still up.

    Makes it more efficient for mobile devices reciving said emails, too.

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