Multiple email alerts

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of James Marcus
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 1:06 PM
> To: Nagios Users mailinglist
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Multiple email alerts
> 
> Hi,
> I¹m using a $8.00/month Xen account to run Nagios to monitor 3 machines
> and
> 37 services.  My issue is that either the Xen machines network or the
> network I host on gets slow and then I get 37 emails regarding downed
> services.  I read the FAQ and thought that setting notification_interval
> to
> 0 would do the trick based on this link:
> http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=71&expand=false&showdesc=fal
> se
> Unfortunately I just got 28 emails for one machine.  I want to setup
> Nagios
> so that if the machine is unreachable, then it should assume that none of
> the services are reachable and it should only send out one alert.

Specify a host check_command that will return CRITICAL when this problem occurs. Nagios will automatically suppress service notifications for hosts that are in a non-OK state.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/networkreachability.html

--
Marc

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