Network outage not handled correctly

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Dirk,

> this night we had a router down. As I understand ist, Nagios should not 
> have notified about "host down" for the hosts set behind those routers 
> (I have set up a fitting parent structure, and the map looks okay).
> But for every host behind the died router there was a "host down" 
> message as well as a "host up" message.

Did you get a "host down" for the router? Was it detected before the
"host down" (hard state) of the hosts behind the router?

> Is there anything additional to configure to get network outages handled 
> right?

Did you disable unreachable host notifications for the hosts behind the
router?

Cheers, Chris.
-- 
(aidworld) chris wilson | chief engineer (chris at aidworld.org)



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