email notice floods

[Terry L. Inzauro]

Jason Woodson wrote:
> The switch is not managed, so it has no IP address.
> 
> 
> On Aug 4, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Chester R. Hosey wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:06 -0400, Jason Woodson wrote:
>>
>>> Actually I apologize, I did not explain the problem correctly. The
>>> problem is not that the computer is rebooted. The problem is that on
>>> rare occasion, the network switch that the Nagios server is connected
>>> to has gone down. Therefore, the Nagios server thinks that everything
>>> is down, and the email notices begin to pile up, unsent. Eventually
>>> when I realize there is a problem and I power the switch back up, all
>>> of the hundreds of notices finally get emailed out of the Nagios
>>> server.
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>
>> Add a host entry for the router, and use "parent" to let Nagios know
>> that all of the hosts behind the router depend on it.
>>
>> Chet
>>
> 
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or use one of your other hosts on the same switch as the parent.  it 
will make the map look funny, but it iwll have the same effect.

regards,

_Terry




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