Reporting from Nagios

[Marc Powell]

On Apr 29, 2009, at 7:19 AM, Brian O'Mahony wrote:

> 1. Is there a way to have a host/service monitored 24x7 but only  
> send one mail when it goes unknown/critical, and another when its ok  
> again?

Yes, notification_interval 0. Description here - http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#service

> 2. Is there a way for example if all hosts in a group stop  
> responding to send a single mail, rather than one for all hosts?

Not really, unless you use some external notification aggregator or  
designate one of them, or another affected host/device you are  
monitoring, as a parent to all the others.  http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/networkreachability.html

HTH,

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Marc

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