How to only alert if multiple hosts is down

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of joseph.lin at comcast.net
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 5:26 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] How to only alert if multiple hosts is down
> 
> All,
> 
> As a poor man's way to see if the floor is out of power, I want to
setup
> nagios to ping network printers that are in the building.
> 
> But I want to only be paged if all the printers are down.
> 
> Is there a way to set up something within hosts.cfg to achieve this?
> 
> I looked at host dependencies, but it doesnt seem like thats the
proper
> solution?
> 
> any advice would be appreciated..

Google for check_cluster. I believe it may even be included in the
contrib for the standard plugins. That will probably fit your needs.

--
Marc


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