Batching notifications

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

Perhaps this would fall under 'kludge' or 'sleight of hand', but if you can put a peer host on your network which is also connected to the same UPS and define host dependencies (ie, 20 hosts are dependant on this one host), then that would be a 20:1 reduction in the number of pages you get.  (If the UPS has a network interface and SNMP support, this might be a better approach.)

If you take the peer host approach, it could be something as simple as a temperature/humidity sensor with built-in IP support.  Simple, and presumably fewer parts to fail.

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Hill [mailto:jhill at liquidweb.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:27 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Batching notifications
> 
> 
> I haven't seen any way to do this, but I am asking just in case it is 
> posible...
> 
> Is there any way to batch notifications?  That is, if 20 
> servers all go 
> down at once (a bad ups typically causes this), is there a 
> way to avoid 
> getting 20 seperate notifications?  I'm using parenting whenever 
> possible, but sometimes it is not enough.
> 
> I am trying to avoid another $600 pager bill (6000 pages in 
> one month). 
>   Thanks for any help.
> 
> jeremy
> 
> 
> 
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