email notice floods

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Jason,

> On the rare occasion when the Nagios server needs to be rebooted, when 
> it comes back up, it detects that all of the hosts and services are 
> down and sends hundreds of email alerts to my email account and my 
> phone. And once it detects they are all back up, it sends hundreds of 
> "up" notices! Besides being quite annoying, it's also pretty costly 
> considering my cell phone company charges $.05 for each received 
> message. Does anyone have a recommendation for how I can avoid this? 

I've never seen this behaviour, and I don't think it should happen.
What's the error reported by the plugins which fail after Nagios
startup? Could it be that Nagios is starting before the network or DNS
server comes up on the Nagios server?

Cheers, Chris.
-- 
(aidworld) chris wilson | chief engineer (chris at aidworld.org)



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