Getting too many Nagios notifications

[Nedim Bicic]

Set up parenting not dependencies on your network

this will definitly reduce your emails and or also increase Ping latency if
you are getting alot of warning messages as well afterwards


On 3/13/07, Guy Rosen <guyrosen at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a simple setup running Nagios 2.3.1 (actually NagiosVMA, configured
> using
> Groundwork Monarch). I have a host with many services on it (both remote
> checks
> performed using check_by_ssh and checks for various public services), and
> I get
> a barrage of notifications whenever something goes wrong.
>
> So, I defined dependencies. The services in a host are dependent on the
> host
> (and/or on the PING service, and some other general services). But, there
> are
> some timing issues that mean I still get hammered with a lot of alerts.
> What
> happens during outages it this:
> 1. The host itself goes down, but not before a few services manage to go
> down
> individually (so I get a few service down notifications)
> 2. More services that go down when the host is down do not generate any
> notifications - good.
> 3. When the outage is over, Nagios detects the host is up.
> 4. Now the services are detected as going up, and since the host is up
> there is
> no dependency to filter the notifications, so I get a whole barrage of
> "service
> OK" notifications.
>
> These are killing my cellphone :-). Can anyone direct me to the best way
> to
> better configure these things?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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