[Nagios-users] Separate mail server problems cause Nagios to plotz (or vice versa?)

2011-06-24 Thread up
We have Nagios monitoring a variety of services on roughly 50 separate servers. Several of them are mail servers, but only the main (that contains most of the Nagios notification recipients) one has this problem. The mail server will start to become unresponsive so just about any input (but

Re: [Nagios-users] Separate mail server problems cause Nagios to plotz (or vice versa?)

2011-06-24 Thread up
Quoting u...@3.am: We have Nagios monitoring a variety of services on roughly 50 separate servers.nbsp; Several of them are mail servers, but only the main (that contains most of the Nagios notification recipients) one has this problem. The mail server will start to become unresponsive so

Re: [Nagios-users] Separate mail server problems cause Nagios to plotz (or vice versa?)

2011-06-24 Thread Allan Clark
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:53, u...@3.am wrote: Quoting u...@3.am: We have Nagios monitoring a variety of services on roughly 50 separate servers.nbsp; Several of them are mail servers, but only the main (that contains most of the Nagios notification recipients) one has this problem. The

Re: [Nagios-users] Separate mail server problems cause Nagios to plotz (or vice versa?)

2011-06-24 Thread up
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:53, u...@3.am wrote: Quoting u...@3.am: We have Nagios monitoring a variety of services on roughly 50 separate servers.nbsp; Several of them are mail servers, but only the main (that contains most of the Nagios notification recipients) one has this problem.

Re: [Nagios-users] Separate mail server problems cause Nagios to plotz (or vice versa?)

2011-06-24 Thread Terry Carmen
Simultaneously, Nagios, which is on a separate server, will send out notifications that every service on every server is down because Nagios cannot reach them.nbsp; Why can't it reach them? Is your mail server also your router? Good Gosh, no!  That's why this is so puzzling. The next

Re: [Nagios-users] Separate mail server problems cause Nagios to plotz (or vice versa?)

2011-06-24 Thread up
Simultaneously, Nagios, which is on a separate server, will send out notifications that every service on every server is down because Nagios cannot reach them.nbsp; Why can't it reach them? Is your mail server also your router? Good Gosh, no!  That's why this is so puzzling. The next