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Re: [hobbit] Purple Status
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- Subject: Re: [hobbit] Purple Status
- From: "Geoff Hallford" <geoff.hallford (at) gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 20:53:23 -0500
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If the ping (conn) check fails ... all other checks on that host
automatically go into basically a null status and they will not alert by
default. Only if you have a host that is NOT monitored by ping, do you need
to worry about putting in "depends" checks.
'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.' --Yogi Berra
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Jason Hand <jason (at) hands4christ.org> wrote:
> I thought I had seen somewhere in the MAN pages about the ability to set
> hosts so that if it is not responding to ping then all of the other
> monitored services should not also send an alert because they are dependent
> on the ping working.
>
> If one of my machines goes offline because someone turns it off I don't
> want the other services to also send me e-mails of their failure or purple
> status. How do I set alerting that if the connection is lost the other
> services won't alert also.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>