email notice floods

[Jason Woodson]

The switch is not managed, so it has no IP address.


On Aug 4, 2005, at 11:09 AM, 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.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>
> 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.
>
> Chet
>



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