Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications during network outage
Sure it is. The official documentation has a great section on this, which ends with: By default, Nagios will notify contacts about both DOWN and UNREACHABLE host states. As an admin/tech, you might not want to get notifications about hosts that are UNREACHABLE. You know your network structure, and if Nagios notifies you that your router/firewall is down, you know that everything behind it is unreachable. If you want to spare yourself from a flood of UNREACHABLE notifications during network outages, you can exclude the unreachable (u) option from the *notification_options* directive in your hosthttp://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#hostdefinitions and/or the *host_notification_options* directive in your contacthttp://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#contactdefinitions. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/networkreachability.html On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:00 PM, John Andrunas j...@andrunas.net wrote: I have a couple of remote sites, and when the link between the main site and remote site goes down a LOT of notifications are generated for hosts in the remote site. I have all the parents set correctly and it is easy to decipher what is going on when you look at the overview, but the mass of email generated is not useful. What config change should I make? It doesn't seem like removing the notification option for unreachable is the correct answer but I can't think of what other things would possibly fix email spam if you will. -- John -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9#45;12, 2009. Register now#33; http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9#45;12, 2009. Register now#33; http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications during network outage
Can you create a check on the 'link between the main site and remote site' and use that as a parent for all of the remote hosts? -Original Message- From: John Andrunas [mailto:j...@andrunas.net] Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 1:00 PM To: Nagios Users Mail-list Subject: [Nagios-users] Notifications during network outage I have a couple of remote sites, and when the link between the main site and remote site goes down a LOT of notifications are generated for hosts in the remote site. I have all the parents set correctly and it is easy to decipher what is going on when you look at the overview, but the mass of email generated is not useful. What config change should I make? It doesn't seem like removing the notification option for unreachable is the correct answer but I can't think of what other things would possibly fix email spam if you will. -- John -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9#45;12, 2009. Register now#33; http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9#45;12, 2009. Register now#33; http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications during network outage
On 9/28/09 1:00 PM, John Andrunas wrote: I have a couple of remote sites, and when the link between the main site and remote site goes down a LOT of notifications are generated for hosts in the remote site. I have all the parents set correctly and it is easy to decipher what is going on when you look at the overview, but the mass of email generated is not useful. What config change should I make? It doesn't seem like removing the notification option for unreachable is the correct answer but I can't think of what other things would possibly fix email spam if you will. Try removing 'u' from 'host_notification_options' in your contact definition: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#contact -- Mathieu -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9#45;12, 2009. Register now#33; http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications during network outage
After reading that, I realize that I had misinterpeted the u flag, thanks I suspect that will help. 2009/9/28 Mathieu Gagné mga...@iweb.com: On 9/28/09 1:00 PM, John Andrunas wrote: I have a couple of remote sites, and when the link between the main site and remote site goes down a LOT of notifications are generated for hosts in the remote site. I have all the parents set correctly and it is easy to decipher what is going on when you look at the overview, but the mass of email generated is not useful. What config change should I make? It doesn't seem like removing the notification option for unreachable is the correct answer but I can't think of what other things would possibly fix email spam if you will. Try removing 'u' from 'host_notification_options' in your contact definition: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#contact -- Mathieu -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9#45;12, 2009. Register now#33; http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null -- John -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9#45;12, 2009. Register now#33; http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
