How can I minimise false alarms?

[nemir nemiria]

Do any others get false alarms?  I seem to get one or two a week from the remote site.

Is there any way to minimise them?   Each notification is an sms,  and if a false alarm happens at an awkward hour it could wake me up (or worse! ;-)  At first I thought it was probably caused by some sort of deprioritation of ping traffic,  so I stopped checking ping,  and just check dns and ssh now.  Hasn't seemed to make much difference.

I fear that before I fully roll out my nagios solution,  the number of false alarms will escalate to the point where the monitoring system loses its integrity.

Regards,

Carlos


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