Let me understand your situation. You have one host, IE:
1.2.3.4 mybroken.host.com # ssh dns pop3 smtp http://mybrokenhost.com
Now after some time you have ssh and dns going down, but the box is still green on conn/ping? Logically, there are two problems - bad bind and bad opensshd, so two alerts is a wise choice.
If you are saying with the example above that every test goes down because it is offline, in my case at least, it only gives me one alert - bad conn, the rest are tagged with "depend" essentially and don't alert you. Is this not the case for you?
On 11/13/07, Hezki Englander <me2unix at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
When a client is down all monitored services will get purple. This is usually causing multiple alerts to be sent for each service. Recipients can get really annoyed by the amount of alerts while they only care to know that the client should be restarted.
Is there a way to get just a single alert telling you the client stopped running, or at least just one purple event ? Has anyone configured the alerts file to prevent this situation?
Thanks,
Hezki
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