Nagios threshold for

[Scott]

We have a problem that frequently pops up in our monitoring 
environment.  Our monitoring server has adequate bandwidth but we share 
with an occasional bandwidth hog.  Sometimes they steal the bulk of our 
available bandwidth causing Nagios to be unable to adequately reach the 
systems it monitors.  What results is an onslaught of hundreds and 
thousands of pages to everyone telling us that systems and services are 
down... one page for each that is monitored!  Sometimes more if the 
bandwidth is pinched for a prolonged period of time.  Legitimate pages 
are lost in the process.

Is there a way to put a threshold on Nagios if "Time Out" messages are 
received from a certain number of hosts or services?  If 4 distinct 
sites are timing out at the same time it should stop all notifications 
for all hosts and services and send a single page indicating a bandwidth 
issue.  Is there any facility in Nagios that even slightly resembles 
what I've described?  TIA!

-Scott

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