How much downtime do we afford for nagios?

[susmit shannigrahi]

>  > So if a service or host is unreachable for 3 or 4 mins, we get a
>  > notification. (However most of the cases it is false positive, due to
>  > congestion or others).
>  Looking through my email, from what I can recall there are no false
>  positives.  xen6 had to be power-cycled which caused all the other
>  collateral notifications.


How long was it down?  Why should a normal reboot will send 23 mails?
Reboot is not any exceptional thing. Is it?
An alert should be when its absolutely necessary...
it should report only  when xen6 comes up but a service does not come up..
What do you think?
Thanks.



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Regards,
Susmit.

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