notification suppression
Miles Scruggs
rt at garnetweb.com
Wed Jul 27 22:47:57 CEST 2005
I want to monitor a host, but have it dependent on a group of hosts ie
google.com Microsoft.com etc, and if the host goes down, no notifications
will be sent out unless at least one of the hosts in that group is up (ie
there is connection to the internet for sure)
> Im not exactly sure what your trying to do....
>
> is it that you have a group of hosts and if they all go down then only one
> should send a notification?
>
> or do you have a group of hosts and if one goes down in that group then
> none of the others should notify?
>
> im not sure what your trying to do..
>
> the way the manual talks of what a dependant service is and what the
> service depending on it is a little bit confusing in my mind... I had to
> play around a bit until i figured it out.... Im going to be setting up a
> large group of dependencies... probably early next week so I'll have it
> fresh in my mind then....
>
>
>
> : RE: [Nagios-users] notification suppression
> >
> > you could create a service dependency... make all the other services
> > dependent on the ping google.ca service....
> > look here for more detail
> > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/dependencies.html
> > while the documentation is a little sketchy for this stuff... i still
> > managed to figure it out after a bit...
> >
>
> Looks like host dependencies will work just fine, but what I need is a
> dependency on a group of hosts. So if anyone of the hosts in the group is
> online the dependency is met. Is this possible?
>
> What I'm seeing now is I could define various hosts/service dependencies,
> but if any one of those hosts/services failed the dependent would fail.
>
> Thanks
>
> Miles
>
>
>
-------------------------------------------------------
SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September
19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices
Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA
Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue.
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
More information about the Users
mailing list