Limiting absolute floods of emails/sms

[Andreas Ericsson]

Nathan Oyler wrote:
> I wanted to know if anyone had some tips in limiting floods of emails or
> sms messages.
> 
> Right now we use parent child relationships, but with 400 hosts there
> are times when the oddest things happen which will cause a huge amount
> of flooding.
> 
> Is there a way to cap the amount of notifications that come out at a
> time? 
> 

Not really, except disabling notifications when the shit hits the fan. 
If you're talking about notifications that nobody cares about you need 
to tweak your thresholds, notification_options or notification_periods.

> Any other ideas? Thank you.
> 
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