[Novalug] nagios and sleeping hosts

Derek LaHousse dlahouss@mtu.edu
Mon Sep 8 20:50:21 EDT 2014


Also, you can set service dependencies: If the host doesn't respond to
a ping, then mute the services on it.

nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/dependencies.html

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Derek LaHousse <dlahouss@mtu.edu> wrote:
> 1. Icinga 2
> 2. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/timeperiods.html - This is
> where you'll set WHEN a service checks.
> 3. You can also set timeperiods when you get contacted.
> 4. But seriously, Icinga 2 is better than Nagios.
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Mark Smith via Novalug
> <novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
>> i like getting alerts about my hosts on my home lan regarding disk
>> drives, processes, users, etc., but i don't want to get alerted when
>> they're sleeping.  i want them to be sent to sleep to avoid using power
>> for nothing.  i haven't been able to figure it out though.  i get
>> emails about a host being "down" which drowns out the real mesages.
>> i can probably setup sort of filter to kill emails i don't want, but
>> that seems ridiculous when all i want is to have nagios alert me
>> when the system is up and has a problem.  if the system is down, i
>> don't want to hear about it.
>>
>> can anyone help me configure nagios to alert me about real system
>> problems?
>>
>> --
>> Hei konā mai
>> Mark Smith
>> mark@winksmith.com
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