parent/child and alerts

[Andreas Ericsson]

Rossz Vamos-Wentworth wrote:
> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>> Rossz Vamos-Wentworth wrote:
>>
>>> I need to improve how alerts are handled.  This morning the internet 
>>> connection on my nagios server went down.  This resulted in none of 
>>> the remote tests working.  I had thought nagios automatically checked 
>>> if the host was reachable if there was a test failure, but from 
>>> alerts I'm receiving, this turns out to not be true (or I screwed up 
>>> something in the configuration.
>>>
>>
>> You screwed up your configuration.
> 
> 
> I think I see the problem.  Dumb of me.  I'm testing the router that 
> connects my nagios server to the internet.  Pinging it works just fine 
> even when there is no internet connection.
> 
> What do other people use to test their connectivity?
> 

A google ping (or some such), or the default route for your router.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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