Detecting partial outages

[Rev. Dr. Aaron M. Segura]

Just off the top of my head -- You could have each monitoring station
report its status for each datacenter to each other and use
"check_cluster" to set thresholds on the monitoring stations stating
that both services have to be down in order to cause an alarm.

Of course, I'm sure someone will swoop down from above with a better
answer.

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 11:42 -0700, David Barrett wrote:
> Is there any way to configure Nagios to detect and ignore partial outages?
> 
> Specifically, I have multiple datacenters for my production service, and
> then two separate locations from which I do monitoring.  It's very rare that
> any of the production datacenters goes down, but it does happen on occasion
> where one of the datacenters becomes inaccessible from only *one* of the
> monitoring stations.
> 
> (In other words, the datacenter is up and running fine, and appears
> accessible by real users, but looks down to one of my monitoring stations.)
> 
> Is there any way to configure Nagios to detect this sort of "partial outage"
> condition and ignore it?  I only want to be notified if it's reported down
> by *both* monitoring stations.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -david
> 
> 
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