Nagios 2.2 was released today so I decided to update my Nagios install at home which monitors my company’s server as well as Ken’s company server. I use Nagios, currently, to monitor ping, smtp, imap, pop, httpd, dns, and ftp. Just the basics. Once I get some free time, I am going to set up NPRE so I can monitor disk space, load, swap, etc. Since I had to update my install of Nagios (just run the same ./configure script I ran when installing it, make all, make install, make install-commandmode) I decided to finally figure out how to cut down the number of notifications I receive on a given day where my home internet goes down.
What I wanted: Nagios to send a SMS when any services of my server were unavailable as well as if my server was down.
What I did not want: Nagios to send me a SMS for every service when my local connection was down…after my local connection went back up. Not only was I getting messages that my local connection went down (after it went back up), I was also getting a … [more]
