parent/child and alerts

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Rossz Vamos-Wentworth
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 11:14 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] parent/child and alerts
> 
> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> I've defined this check command:
> 
> define command{
>    command_name    check_connectivity
>    command_line    $USER1$/check_ping -H www.google.com -w 100.0,20%
-c
> 500.0,60%
> }

Instead of pinging Google, and I'm sure they have enough people doing it
to amount to a sizable chunk of bandwidth, why not be a little more
Internet friendly and ping the far side of your router connection to
your ISP?

--
Marc 


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