howto ignore "down" hosts

[Michael Barrett]

In your host definition set the notification_options so that it doesn't notify you when hosts go down/recover:

    notification_options         d,u,r

(remove the d & r)

On Sep 28, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Albrecht Dreß wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> a dumb question - is it possible to ignore hosts which are down, i.e. no messages are sent if the machine is down, or goes up again, and no service checks are performed while the machine is down?  When the box comes up again, the service checks should be run soon if possible.
> 
> This would be nice for boxes which are down regularly (but not according to a pre-defined schedule), but have some services which shall be monitored, without sending too many mails to the person in charge for it...
> 
> I'm running Nagios 3.2.3, self-compiled on Ubuntu 8.04, if that matters.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Albrecht.
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definitive record of customers, application performance, security
threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes
sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1
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