Nested notifications; parent vis-a-vis parent_host

Morris, Patrick patrick.morris at hp.com
Wed Jul 4 04:23:38 CEST 2007


> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Lev Lafayette
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:29 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nested notifications;parent vis-a-vis
> parent_host
> 
> > > However, when the parent machine goes down, all the VMs (for
> obvious
> > > reasons) send out a "Oh Noes!" message as well. This is not
wanted.
> > >
> >
> > Shouldn't happen if your host checks work properly and you have the
> > parents directive properly set up to match your environment.
> >
> 
> To be more specific, when a border-router or similar goes down,
> unreachable notifications are sent out for a number of connected
> machines, vms and so forth; which is pretty obvious imo... This seems
> to
> be the main issue DOWNs leading to UNREACHABLES.

If you don't want the UNREACHABLE alerts, just disable them.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express
Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take
control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now.
http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null





More information about the Users mailing list