email notice floods

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jason Woodson
> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 9:35 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] email notice floods
> 
> On the rare occasion when the Nagios server needs to be rebooted, when
> it comes back up, it detects that all of the hosts and services are
> down and sends hundreds of email alerts to my email account and my
> phone. And once it detects they are all back up, it sends hundreds of
> "up" notices! Besides being quite annoying, it's also pretty costly
> considering my cell phone company charges $.05 for each received
> message. Does anyone have a recommendation for how I can avoid this?


If it's sending notifications for only hosts and services that were down
before restart this is probably what you are looking for --

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configmain.html#retain_state_info
rmation

If it's truly sending out notifications for all hosts and services,
that's not normal behavior and is likely caused by some external factor
such as those mentioned by Chris Wilson. Without knowing what's being
reported by nagios as the reason they are down we would only be
speculating.

--
Marc


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