email notice floods

[Marc Powell]

Yes, that is quite different than 'when the Nagios server needs to be
rebooted'. The parents directive is your friend. Make the switch the
parent for all your hosts.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html#host
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/networkreachability.html

--
Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jason Woodson
> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:07 AM
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net> <nagios-
> users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] email notice floods
> 
> 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.
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 4, 2005, at 10:49 AM, Marc Powell wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-
> >> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jason Woodson
> >> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 9:35 AM
> >> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> >> Subject: [Nagios-users] email notice floods
> >>
> >> On the rare occasion when the Nagios server needs to be rebooted,
when
> >> it comes back up, it detects that all of the hosts and services are
> >> down and sends hundreds of email alerts to my email account and my
> >> phone. And once it detects they are all back up, it sends hundreds
of
> >> "up" notices! Besides being quite annoying, it's also pretty costly
> >> considering my cell phone company charges $.05 for each received
> >> message. Does anyone have a recommendation for how I can avoid
this?
> >
> >
> > If it's sending notifications for only hosts and services that were
> > down
> > before restart this is probably what you are looking for --
> >
> > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/
> > configmain.html#retain_state_info
> > rmation
> >
> > If it's truly sending out notifications for all hosts and services,
> > that's not normal behavior and is likely caused by some external
factor
> > such as those mentioned by Chris Wilson. Without knowing what's
being
> > reported by nagios as the reason they are down we would only be
> > speculating.
> >
> > --
> > Marc
> >
> >
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