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by mfarrenk
Fri Jul 13, 2012 6:03 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: Extract a Portion of a Service Group Membership
Replies: 5
Views: 1717

Re: Extract a Portion of a Service Group Membership

I don't take no for an answer ( . . . usually . . .) and I didn't this time. ;) I still haven't been able to find a way to extract a subset of a service group membership (new feature please???). However, I've come up with a way to do it that minimizes the human element. I have a script to run that w...
by mfarrenk
Wed Jul 11, 2012 11:16 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: Extract a Portion of a Service Group Membership
Replies: 5
Views: 1717

Re: Extract a Portion of a Service Group Membership

I am a network engineer for a large organization. When I say "network engineer", that's really my job -- I'm not like a jack-of-all-trades, some server admin/network admin/tech-type position. So monitoring servers (disk space, CPU utilization, etc.) is not really in scope for me. What I mo...
by mfarrenk
Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:41 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: Extract a Portion of a Service Group Membership
Replies: 5
Views: 1717

Extract a Portion of a Service Group Membership

Our primary purpose for Nagios is interface status checking. To that end, I'm trying to improve its efficiency by having it check all of the monitored interfaces on a switch or router without having to run the check script every time. I only want it to return results for the configured interfaces so...
by mfarrenk
Wed Jan 04, 2012 7:54 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: Notification Consolidation
Replies: 1
Views: 1023

Notification Consolidation

I've seen a couple of threads here that look similar to what I want to do. Unfortunately, there aren't any responses that apply to my situation. There are several buildings that I monitor. One such building has 17 network closets in it. Each closet has two automatic transfer switches and two UPSes. ...
by mfarrenk
Wed Jan 04, 2012 7:43 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: reduced (single) alert for one location with many devices
Replies: 2
Views: 1233

Re: reduced (single) alert for one location with many device

Hi Phil, I know it has been some time since you posted this. However, this is what the relationships in Nagios are for. If you define relationships saying that switchB has switchA as a parent, and switchA has routerA as a parent, then if routerA goes down (i.e. the broadband link), then you'll only ...