Nested notifications; parent vis-a-vis parent_host

[Lev Lafayette]

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 22:23 -0400, Morris, Patrick wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Lev Lafayette
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:29 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nested notifications;parent vis-a-vis
> > parent_host
> > 
> > > > However, when the parent machine goes down, all the VMs (for
> > obvious
> > > > reasons) send out a "Oh Noes!" message as well. This is not
> wanted.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Shouldn't happen if your host checks work properly and you have the
> > > parents directive properly set up to match your environment.
> > >
> > 
> > To be more specific, when a border-router or similar goes down,
> > unreachable notifications are sent out for a number of connected
> > machines, vms and so forth; which is pretty obvious imo... This seems
> > to
> > be the main issue DOWNs leading to UNREACHABLES.
> 
> If you don't want the UNREACHABLE alerts, just disable them.

Yeah, I've done that. Just does seem to be pretty redundant to send out
UNREACHABLE alerts when a parent is DOWN, imo... :-)

All the best, Lev


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