> We have a bit of a tempermental firewall at the moment that keeps "going > down" thus resulting in everything appearing down to Nagios in Location A > and it alerting like a loonatic for all hosts/services (88/156)
You could monitor the firewall, and configure it to be the parent of the hosts behind it. That way, when it "goes down", you only get the alert for the firewall crapping out, and not all of the hosts that depend on it. -- "The problem with quotes on the internet is that it's very hard to verify their authenticity." -- Abraham Lincoln ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
