Notification for change in critical state

[Morris, Patrick]

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> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 10:42 PM
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> Subject: [Nagios-users] Notification for change in critical state
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am running nagios 2.5, monitoring a network that has many 
> devices with  multiple IPs (ie. routers).
> Currently I have each IP registered as a separate host, which 
> works well, but is a pain to manage.
> What I want to do is set up a multi-ping service that will 
> ping all the IPs and generate a critical state if one of the 
> IPs does not respond.
> The problem is that, for example, one IP goes down and a 
> notification is sent out, there doesn't seem to be a way to 
> force a notification to be sent if another IP goes down, as 
> the service is already in a hard critical state.
> I thought about generating an external command from the check 
> script, but the list of external commands
> (http://nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandlist.php)
> doesn't list one that I could see helping...(like maybe one 
> to force the state type back to soft or something). Setting 
> the notification number to 0 didn't do the trick (see 
> SET_SVC_NOTIFICATION_NUMBER).
> 
> Is such a scenario possible? or am I barking up the wrong tree?

What I'd do, which may or may not work for you, is to set up a service on a single host that pings each IP.  That way one interface going down doesn't effect the notification status of the others. 

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