email notice floods

[Scott Sugar]

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.
 
Then just set the contact of service1 to be yourself so you know when that switch is down.
 
Although if nagios is behind that switch as well, your notification wont get out until the switch is back up.
 
Scott

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From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net on behalf of Jason Woodson
Sent: Thu 8/4/2005 11:15 AM
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net> <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net> <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] email notice floods



The switch is not managed, so it has no IP address.


On Aug 4, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Chester R. Hosey wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:06 -0400, Jason Woodson wrote:
>> Actually I apologize, I did not explain the problem correctly. The
>> problem is not that the computer is rebooted. The problem is that on
>> rare occasion, the network switch that the Nagios server is connected
>> to has gone down. Therefore, the Nagios server thinks that everything
>> is down, and the email notices begin to pile up, unsent. Eventually
>> when I realize there is a problem and I power the switch back up, all
>> of the hundreds of notices finally get emailed out of the Nagios
>> server.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>
> Add a host entry for the router, and use "parent" to let Nagios know
> that all of the hosts behind the router depend on it.
>
> Chet
>



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