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Hello,

I would like to have your opinion on a need that has been asked of me.

We have several network equipment in several locations. We have classified all the equipment by location and we have made the parent / child links for the equipment in question.

Let's say a location has a router and a switch and 40 access points.

The problem we have right now is that if a failure occurs the 40 access points remain in trouble after the other two devices are back to normal.

Basically the router and the switch start up normally but the access points don't come back up normally. You will tell me that it would be easier to fix the problem at the source and make sure that the access points come up normally but this is not under our control and we are waiting for the supplier to come back for a fix.

In fact, what I'm wondering is if there is a way to limit the number of alerts related to a location. For example see the alerts in Nagios XI but limit the amount of notification sent for a group of equipment or via a logic.

Thank you!

Hi,

A couple of options. If you set the motivation internal to 0, it's only going to notify one time.

notification_interval: This directive is used to define the number of "time units" to wait before re-notifying a contact that this service is still down or unreachable. Unless you've changed the interval_length directive from the default value of 60, this number will mean minutes. If you set this value to 0, Nagios will not re-notify contacts about problems for this host - only one problem notification will be sent out.

See: https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... .html#host

That would be the simplest and help reduce the number of notifications. Otherwise, is there anything that the wireless access points are dependent upon before coming back up that can be checked? If so you can set up a service dependency.

Benjamin