alert on switch port state change

[KiwiBloke]

Hi,

We run nagiosxi R1.6 running monitoring servers and network gear in one of our datacenters

When we implemented nagiosxi all the switch ports were open whether they were in use or not. Our network sysadmin has recently gone though and shutdown all the unused ports as a security measure. as a result many ports are now marked as "administratively down" and are alerting.

Is there a way to monitor these ports but only have them alert on state change only?

Cheers,

C.

[scottwilkerson]

If you acknowledge the items that are down, they will not alert until they come back up.

You can use the Home -> Mass Acknowledge component to do them all in one go..

[abrist]

This is actually the default behavior as you only receive alerts when state changes. If you want to only receive notifications once and only once for each state change, set the notification interval to "0".
From: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... tions.html

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.