[Nagios-users] Notifications during network outage

2009-09-28 Thread John Andrunas
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

Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications during network outage

2009-09-28 Thread Martin Melin
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,

Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications during network outage

2009-09-28 Thread Menard, Chris
] 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

Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications during network outage

2009-09-28 Thread Mathieu Gagné
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

Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications during network outage

2009-09-28 Thread John Andrunas
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