On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 22:23 -0400, Morris, Patrick wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lev Lafayette > > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:29 PM > > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nested notifications;parent vis-a-vis > > parent_host > > > > > > However, when the parent machine goes down, all the VMs (for > > obvious > > > > reasons) send out a "Oh Noes!" message as well. This is not > wanted. > > > > > > > > > > Shouldn't happen if your host checks work properly and you have the > > > parents directive properly set up to match your environment. > > > > > > > To be more specific, when a border-router or similar goes down, > > unreachable notifications are sent out for a number of connected > > machines, vms and so forth; which is pretty obvious imo... This seems > > to > > be the main issue DOWNs leading to UNREACHABLES. > > If you don't want the UNREACHABLE alerts, just disable them.
Yeah, I've done that. Just does seem to be pretty redundant to send out UNREACHABLE alerts when a parent is DOWN, imo... :-) All the best, Lev ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ 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
