Re: [hobbit] single alert for a host going puprle

["Josh Luthman" <josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com>]

Let me understand your situation.  You have one host, IE:

1.2.3.4 mybroken.host.com # ssh dns pop3 smtp http://mybrokenhost.com

Now after some time you have ssh and dns going down, but the box is still
green on conn/ping?  Logically, there are two problems - bad bind and bad
opensshd, so two alerts is a wise choice.

If you are saying with the example above that every test goes down because
it is offline, in my case at least, it only gives me one alert - bad conn,
the rest are tagged with "depend" essentially and don't alert you.  Is this
not the case for you?

On 11/13/07, Hezki Englander <me2unix (at) gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> When a client is down all monitored services will get purple.
> This is usually causing multiple alerts to be sent for each service.
> Recipients can get really annoyed by the amount of alerts while they only
> care to know that the client should be restarted.
>
> Is there a way to get just a single alert telling you the client stopped
> running, or at least just one purple event ?
> Has anyone configured the alerts file to prevent this situation?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hezki
>



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