Israel Brewster wrote: > Does nagios (3.0.3) mark a child host as unreachable when its parent > enters a soft down state? I am finding myself getting repeated down > messages for a host (which is, in fact, down), even though I have > notifications set to only send a single message. Looking at the logs, > it would appear that what is happening is that the host is flipping > between "down" (which notifies me) and "unreachable" (which does not). > The parent host, however, never enters a hard down state. Looking at > the logs, what I see is that one ICMP check fails, throwing the host > into a soft down state, but the next one works just fine, bringing it > back to an up state. > > The logic works fine for the parent host- since it never hits a hard > down state, it doesn't alert, and everyone is happy. But apparently > with the child host every time this happens, it switches from critical > to unreachable and back again, triggering a notification. Is there any > way to keep this from happening? Thanks. >
Doesn't flapping detection do what you want? You'd get a few notifications, but they'd stop after the 3rd flip or something, I think. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
