email notice floods

[Marc Powell]

Then if you have a way to determine an actual major outage from an
outage of just that switch, create a plugin and make it the
check_command for an arbitrary host that is the parent of all your other
hosts. If you can't make that determination, how is nagios supposed to?
Obviously this is important to you and is costing you money. I would
suggest that you put a managed switch there that you _can_ monitor. It
seems to me that your unmanaged switch isn't working out too well on a
number of fronts.

--
Marc

> -----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 10:15 AM
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net> <nagios-
> users at lists.sourceforge.net> <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] email notice floods
> 
> 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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