NAGIOS - How to change warning thresholds?

scr3wball · 07-06-2008, 04:54 PM

Hey guys,

Boss has asked me to change some nagios settings to make the thresholds higher for notifications for warning/critical/down more tolerant.

For example, my boss wants the nagios box to only send out notifications if the host misses 3 out of 4 pings, and critical notifications if the host returns a ping time of 1500ms.

I know it seems overly high but we're working with DSL here and it's not practical to have nagios running purely because of the hugely annoying siren going off every 5 seconds.

I've searched google to no end and can't find out where's it is arranged!

Please help,

Adam

wmorri · 07-06-2008, 06:34 PM

Have you checked all the documentation on the companies website. I am not familiar with this program. But I took a look at it and it seems like an interesting one. I would recommend that you start with nagios.org and see what information you can find on there.

Sorry that I don't have more help for you, maybe some of the others on the forum can help you more.

Cheers!

scr3wball · 07-06-2008, 07:38 PM

Hey there, yeah I've flicked through the whole nagios admin guide and also googled a lot of other 3rd party sites but found nothing.

Thank you for offering some help though!

07-06-2008, 04:54 PM	#1 (permalink)
scr3wball Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2 OS: XP Pro SP3	NAGIOS - How to change warning thresholds? Hey guys, Boss has asked me to change some nagios settings to make the thresholds higher for notifications for warning/critical/down more tolerant. For example, my boss wants the nagios box to only send out notifications if the host misses 3 out of 4 pings, and critical notifications if the host returns a ping time of 1500ms. I know it seems overly high but we're working with DSL here and it's not practical to have nagios running purely because of the hugely annoying siren going off every 5 seconds. I've searched google to no end and can't find out where's it is arranged! Please help, Adam

07-06-2008, 06:34 PM	#2 (permalink)
wmorri HJT Trainee Join Date: May 2008 Location: NORTHERN New York Posts: 470 OS: Vista Basic SP1/Ubuntu 8.04	Re: NAGIOS - How to change warning thresholds? Have you checked all the documentation on the companies website. I am not familiar with this program. But I took a look at it and it seems like an interesting one. I would recommend that you start with nagios.org and see what information you can find on there. Sorry that I don't have more help for you, maybe some of the others on the forum can help you more. Cheers! __________________ Linux Forever! Learning is doing, not being able to follow steps put forth by others.

07-06-2008, 07:38 PM	#3 (permalink)
scr3wball Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2 OS: XP Pro SP3	Re: NAGIOS - How to change warning thresholds? Hey there, yeah I've flicked through the whole nagios admin guide and also googled a lot of other 3rd party sites but found nothing. Thank you for offering some help though!