Quick "escalation" question
Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]
jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com
Fri Jan 3 22:44:00 CET 2003
> is it necessary to define an escalation for EVERY Service of
> every host
> in the escalation.cfg?? if I want all pages for all problems for a
> specific box sent to the same contact group then can I get away with
> just a host escalation?
Yes.
> If I don't define an escalation for say http on box #1 and it
> goes down
> will no one get notified?? or will it just use the host escalation in
> liew of the missing service escalation?
The latter.
> as far as Nagios is concern how does it deal with hosts vs.
> services?? I
> am under the impression the only "host" check being done is the
> check-hosts-alive as defined in the hosts.cfg so the bulk of
> what your
> monitoring in nagios will be in the services.cfg I am monitoring much
> more then ping... so again, is only a host escalation sufficient to
> trigger a notification in the event of a service failure?
Nagios only does the host check if all service checks for that host are hard down.
> I am monitoring over 300+ services on 80+ hosts so if I can get away
> with only needing to have 80 host escalations rather then
> 300+ service
> escalations + 80 host escalations I would welcome the cut
> down in time...
Try 128 hosts, 1080 active checks, and *many* service dependencies to cut down on the NRPE churn. ;)
And yes, we're using hostgroupescalation definitions. :)
jc
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