Thanks to all that answered. This was very helpful. ps: I hope your thunder gets returned in good shape. ;-)
-- Paul @ Thy Service > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Paul G. Szabady wrote: >> Folks, >> >> I have a question related to the server availability reporting in big >> brother vs nagios. We currently use big brother, yet when there's an >> outage, we disable monitoring. This minimizes email and paging noise >> while working on the issue(s). The downfall is that the availability >> report data gets skewed and doesn't show an accurate representation of >> server uptime. Does nagios have the ability to stop paging, but >> continue >> monitoring so that the availability reports are accurate? According to >> the manual, it seems to be that way, but I'd like to make sure before I >> suggest moving from BB to nagios. >> >> Thanks! >> > In a nutshell, yes. > > "Checks" which is Nagios' term for the monitoring of a service/host and > "notifications" which would be the e-mail/page/IM/RSS that tells you > when there's are a problem are completely separate in Nagios. > > In the detail for a host or service you have the option of disabling > either checks or notifications. At my site we LART anyone who disables > checks. > > Also, Nagios has the features of Downtime and Acknowledgments. > > Downtime allows you to specify a time period not to send out alerts for > the host/service to send notifications. Check data will still be > processed. > > (In nagios 1.3 (the Debian default) downtime does not trickle from the > host to the services on that host. meaning that if you schedule > downtime for a host and the host is up for part of that time but a > service is not up, then nagios will page you about the service being > down. Nagios 2+ claims (I've not tested it myself yet) to fix this.) > > > Acknowledgments allows you to simply say I know about this problem, stop > whining. It will supress all further notifications until the status > changes. > > I note that while I've been typing a "Joyner-esque" length e-mail two > others have jumped in and stolen my thunder. > > CJK > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFE7wADA6qv8hqmptoRAmn+AJ42Y6jgMgGo5TsKIpyc9cxrDMw0dACdFOfn > 8je2KWhcvaM2QrVZwsZC84s= > =43e0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
