email notice floods

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Jason,

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 16:09, 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.

> 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.

And then turn off "unreachable" notifications for those hosts.

Cheers, Chris.
-- 
(aidworld) chris wilson | chief engineer (chris at aidworld.org)



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