Nagios flooding outside email addresses

Assaf Flatto nagios at flatto.net
Wed Mar 14 10:49:35 CET 2012


What is your definition for rechecks and notification intervals ,and 
first and last notifications ( see service and service escalation 
definitions )?

Also how many issue does your system has that are un handled that nagios 
is producing so many alerts ?




On 13/03/12 13:34, Jeremy Gibbs wrote:
> I have sendmail setup to use our smtp server as a forwarder.  This has 
> been working great so far.  The only issue I am seeing is, outside 
> email addresses such as a cell number @vtext.com <http://vtext.com> is 
> having messages sent to it several times a second; until Verizon 
> finally rate limits the messages.  This in turn queues up the 
> messages, and a large number come through again.  This does NOT happen 
> with any internal email addresses.  If I check the mail log, I can see 
> Nagios sending the message several times a second to only outside 
> email addresses and only once to internal email addresses.
>
>
> I am not sure what the issue is.
>
> I will give you a sample of my config
>
>
> define contact{
>         name                            generic-contact         ; The 
> name of this contact template
>         service_notification_period     24x7                    ; 
> service notifications can be sent anytime
>         host_notification_period        24x7                    ; host 
> notifications can be sent anytime
>         service_notification_options    w,u,c,r,f,s             ; send 
> notifications for all service states, flapping events, and scheduled 
> downtime events
>         host_notification_options       d,u,r,f,s               ; send 
> notifications for all host states, flapping events, and scheduled 
> downtime events
>         service_notification_commands   notify-service-by-email ; send 
> service notifications via email
>         host_notification_commands      notify-host-by-email    ; send 
> host notifications via email
>         register                        0                       ; DONT 
> REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL CONTACT, JUST A TEMPLATE!
>         }
>
> define contact{
>         contact_name              guys-cell
>         use                             generic-contact
>         alias                           John Doe
>         email xxx8777xxx at vtext.com <mailto:xxx8777xxx at vtext.com>
>         }
>
>
> define contactgroup{
>         contactgroup_name       network-admin
>         alias                             Switches and networking admins
>         members                 guys-cell
>         }
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> -- 
> Jeremy L. Gibbs
> Systems Administrator
> Utica College
> Integrated Information Technology Services
> (315) 223-2383
>
>
>
>
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