email notification question

Edward Ford eford at nexusenergy.com
Wed Jul 6 19:12:14 CEST 2005


I finally have Nagios up and running pretty well at this point. I did get an
interesting event happen that I would like to get some feedback on if
possible.

-          All was working well notifications for critical and recovery went
by email working fine
-          As a last test I decided to reboot to make sure all still worked
well.
-          I got over 5000 email notifications for critical and recovery ( I
have about 40 servers with three things being checked each: cpu, disk and
memory) three multiplied by 40 should have been at most 120 emails. I
figured that nagios was rechecking everything.
-          I am not so sure why I got over 5000 email notifications (that is
five thousand). Thank goodness that I am also one of the email admins so I
was able to delete everything that went to my email address while the 5000
were coming in and did not blue screen the mail server.


Any suggestions on how I could have gotten over 5000 because I rebooted the
nagios server..

Thanks;
Eddie

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