parent/child and alerts

[Andreas Ericsson]

Rossz Vamos-Wentworth wrote:
> I need to improve how alerts are handled.  This morning the internet 
> connection on my nagios server went down.  This resulted in none of the 
> remote tests working.  I had thought nagios automatically checked if the 
> host was reachable if there was a test failure, but from alerts I'm 
> receiving, this turns out to not be true (or I screwed up something in 
> the configuration.
> 

You screwed up your configuration.

> What must I do to receive only a single alert for each host when the 
> internet connection is down instead of an alert for each service?

Un-screw your configuration. If you use the parents directive (in an 
un-screwed up way) you should only get very few alerts in a situation 
like this.


>  A 
> bonus would be to supress all the alerts if the nagios server loses its 
> connection.  I could configure one of the remote servers to test my 
> primary nagios server's connection and send out an alert if it's 
> unreachable.
> 

Just re-read the manual regarding object configuration. It'll dawn on 
you in a couple of tries.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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