dont want notification when machine reboots

[Jim Avery]

On 27/07/07, Jim Avery <jim at jimavery.me.uk> wrote:
> I've been having a similar problem and have thought about the solution
> but haven't gotten around to implementing it yet.  Mark Powell's
> suggestion to rely on the service check notification is absolutely
> right when you want to ignore brief bounces or lost pings.  I'm going
> to do just that, but I will still have a host notification enabled
> too...
>
> I'll configure things so that the on-call engineers get the ping
> service notification rather than the host notification - they don't
> want to know about servers briefly bounced.  The host notifications
> I'll send only to me by email so I will know the next day which
> servers have bounced overnight.  I'm hoping that will bring me the
> best of both worlds.

For the record, I tried my variation of Mark's suggestion and it
didn't work because I hadn't taken the trouble to understand it
properly.

If I leave host checks enabled (contrary to Mark's advice), then as
soon as any service check fails, Nagios will try the host check which
will fail too and will immediately set the service check to a HARD
status.

Mark's suggestion works because host checks are disabled.  The
possible down-side is that you don't then see hosts go down in Nagios
as such.  The host up/down status is important to me because it is
used in the Nexsm status map display.  I think unfortunately I'm going
to use escalations instead, although it's going to be a bit messy.

Cheers,

Jim

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