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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Add in an extra service that
attempts to ping a host that is always up and is outside of that switch,
actually if the switch shuts off, it could even be another machine inside the
switch. We will call that service1. Now make every service
dependant on service1.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Then just set the contact of service1 to be
yourself so you know when that switch is down.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Although if nagios is behind that switch as
well, your notification wont get out until the switch is back up.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Scott</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
on behalf of Jason Woodson<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thu 8/4/2005 11:15 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
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<nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net><BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Nagios-users]
email notice floods<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>The switch is not managed, so it has no IP
address.<BR><BR><BR>On Aug 4, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Chester R. Hosey
wrote:<BR><BR>> On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:06 -0400, Jason Woodson
wrote:<BR>>> Actually I apologize, I did not explain the problem
correctly. The<BR>>> problem is not that the computer is rebooted. The
problem is that on<BR>>> rare occasion, the network switch that the Nagios
server is connected<BR>>> to has gone down. Therefore, the Nagios server
thinks that everything<BR>>> is down, and the email notices begin to pile
up, unsent. Eventually<BR>>> when I realize there is a problem and I power
the switch back up, all<BR>>> of the hundreds of notices finally get
emailed out of the Nagios<BR>>> server.<BR>>><BR>>>
Jason<BR>>><BR>><BR>> Add a host entry for the router, and use
"parent" to let Nagios know<BR>> that all of the hosts behind the router
depend on it.<BR>><BR>>
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