On Sep 11, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Charlie Reddington wrote: > Hi, > > I have nagios up and working but I want to tweak it some so I'm not > getting buried under sms messages. >
> My real question comes down to dependencies. As much as I love getting > 400 messages if something 'upstream' goes down like a switch, I > generally want to try to get alerts only for hosts down and alerts for > the first point of failure. > > So assuming one of my networks look like this: > > Router --> Switch -> serv01, serv02, serv03 > > Lets say the switch goes down. Which makes the servers all > unreachable, which fails out all other servers. I don't want to have > any notifications really for anything below the switch. Sounds like you don't want dependencies, you want parents. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/networkreachability.html -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ 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
