Disabling Nagios in the event of network card failure.

[Max Hetrick]

On 10/12/2010 07:56 AM, Kristan Webb wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Hopefully an easy query.
>
> We run Nagios 3 on an Ubuntu box and I'm looking for a way to stop
> Nagios falsely reporting services/hosts as down/unknown if, for example,
> the network cable was pulled out of the server / the card failed. This
> has happened recently for over an hour and now all hosts/services have a
> false hours downtime.
>
> I'm not too bothered, but I like to try and keep things as neat as
> possible.
>
> Does anyone know of a way of preventing this? All I can think is some
> way of detecting when the server has lost network and then automatically
> quitting / disabling Nagios?

This is pretty much the entire point of Nagios, that is to report when 
something has failed.

If you're intentionally taking down the network on the host, then I 
would suggest scheduling downtime for that host if you or others know 
you're going to take it down for a period of time, otherwise, Nagios is 
doing it's job.

Regards,
Max

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