Notification to contact group ONLY when multiple hosts are DOWN.

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Andreas Ericsson
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:52 AM
> To: Neal Bradbury
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notification to contact group ONLY when
> multiple hosts are DOWN.
> 
> Neal Bradbury wrote:
> > In the network that I administer, I would like a
> > different contact group to be notified when a group of
> > hosts are down.
> >
> > The setup right now will notify a contactgroup for
> > each host and we would like that to still be the case.
> >  I would like this second notification group to only
> > be notified when all the hosts are down.
> >
> > Could someone please point me in the right direction?
> >
> 
> I believe you can accomplish this with a weird chain of escalations
and
> dependencies, although I strongly advise against it if you wish to
> maintain your mental health.

Check_cluster might also be usable and was my first thought. It would be
roundabout but perhaps not as convoluted. If you haven't guessed, the
feature you are asking about isn't really built in.

--
Marc


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