multiple alerts

[mbowden]

We have lets say a host that has 4 services associated with it.

host-a
host-a / Ping
host-a / Load
host-a /Disk Usage
host-a /SSH server

Currently if host-a goes down we get alerts on each service repeating until the problem is resolved. nstead of one alert we get oh say 20 lol. How do we configure so that if the server is unreachable (unable to ping) we get an alert that the host is down and not 4 seperate alerts?

Is there an easy way to go back and reconfigure all the hosts to do this, if iin fact it is possible?
Any help would be apprecaited.
Mike

[slansing]

It looks like what is happening here is the services are being checked before the host is, if the host goes down it should suppress the services as that is what logic it follows. You may want to adjust your service notification / check intervals to allow the host to check before them, or more rapidly, so that it will alert before they do.

If you do have the Nagios XI 2012 Enterprise Edition, or the trial you can use the Bulk Modifications Tool found in CCM > Tools > Bulk Modifications Tool > Change Single Config Option

To change the check and notification interval's of multiple hosts/services at once.