On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Chris Hardie wrote: > In our old system, we monitored the health of our connection to the > Internet by checking packet loss and round trip times in ping packets > sent to www.google.com and www.yahoo.com. Because either site was > liable to have localized, temporary problems, we only triggered an alert > if all of the sites we were pinging were experiencing a warning (which > usually meant there was a problem with our connection, as opposed to one > with theirs). > > In Mon, this was done with a config option that said "only consider this > group of hosts to have a problem if ALL of them have a problem." So > far, I can't find a way to do this in Nagios; I tried it with host > dependencies, creative check plugin setups, etc. and can't seem to do it > reliably/gracefully.
You can set up individual non-alerting ping checks, then use check_cluster to group them and only alert if the whole "cluster" fails. There are plenty of other ways, too, but that one's pretty easy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
