email notification question

[Andrew Cruse]

Did you have trouble getting notifications set up properly at first?
The only way I could see that happening is if you had Sendmail (or
whatever MTA you're using on that server) misconfigured and all those
alerts from all the time you were testing were queued up and didn't get
sent until sendmail was fixed and restarted which caused the queued
messages to be retried, this time successfully.
 
Andrew

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From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Edward
Ford
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 1:12 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] email notification question


I finally have Nagios up and running pretty well at this point. I did
get an interesting event happen that I would like to get some feedback
on if possible.
 
-          All was working well notifications for critical and recovery
went by email working fine
-          As a last test I decided to reboot to make sure all still
worked well.
-          I got over 5000 email notifications for critical and recovery
( I have about 40 servers with three things being checked each: cpu,
disk and memory) three multiplied by 40 should have been at most 120
emails. I figured that nagios was rechecking everything.
-          I am not so sure why I got over 5000 email notifications
(that is five thousand). Thank goodness that I am also one of the email
admins so I was able to delete everything that went to my email address
while the 5000 were coming in and did not blue screen the mail server.
 
 
Any suggestions on how I could have gotten over 5000 because I rebooted
the nagios server..
 
Thanks;
Eddie
 
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