Re: [Nagios-users] dont want notification when machine reboots

From: Jim Avery <jim(at)jimavery.me.uk>
Date: Mon Jul 30 2007 - 02:37:15 EDT

On 30/07/07, Lalita Drolia <ldrolia@bea.com> wrote:
>
> Setting up downtime will not be possible. As our servers our being used by
> individual users for testing purposes. And they may reboot the machine in
> the normal process of their working. Asking them to schedule a downtime
> would add overhead for them and we would not prefer to do that.
>
> So I guess I will have to go with Mark's suggestion if there is no way to
> delay the notifications.

I believe Mark's suggestion is absolutely the right one (both for me and for you). However, if you're reluctant to try that for some reason another option would be to have the normal host notifications go to /dev/null, and use escalation to notify after a given period; it would be a messy way to do it but it's another option!

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