newbie question...

[Marc Powell]

On Jun 1, 2009, at 3:09 AM, Arnar Þórarinsson wrote:

> So there is no way of getting just the host down alert when a host  
> goes down ?
>
> To explain a little, lets say I'm monitoring CPU, memory and disk  
> space on a host.
> The host goes down and Nagios sends an alert by email for the host  
> down event and
> also for the CPU, memory and disk space events.  All I need to know  
> about this event is that the host is down.
> Just think that it's not neccessary to send an alert email about  
> services on a host that is down.

And so does nagios. As I said earlier, nagios does this automatically.  
To restate - when a host is down, nagios suppresses all e-mail  
notifications about that hosts services, but will still display them  
as down in the GUI. It will only send the host down notification.

The first section of http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/networkreachability.html 
  states it best. It still applies to 3.x but I haven't found the  
section that states it as clearly.

--
Marc


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