Cluster based escalations

[Marc Powell]

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> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jay Deiman
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 2:00 PM
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Cluster based escalations
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> I'm wondering if there is a way to do threshold based escalations for
a
> cluster of hosts/services.
> 
> For example, say that you are running a large operation with a cluster
> of 10 mail servers. Now, we'll say that there is a buffer in place
such
> that you don't have a high priority problem unless 3 of the 10 mail
> servers go down, or for that matter 3 of the 10 mail servers have an
> unresponsive service check of SMTP. Now, is there a way to define an
> escalation such that it is only triggered when 3 of 10 machines in a
> group go down, or 3 of 10 SMTP services in a group stop responding?
> 

How about just adding a more intelligent service check like
check_cluster? Escalations are handled on a single host or service
basis. Apply special notifications or escalations to the check_cluster
test.

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Marc


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