My apologies as I am not trying to debate but isn't there a logical fallacy in the idea that you not "monitor" when power is down for any reason intentional or not? It takes monitoring to know the power is down.
What he just wants then is a way to suppress all alerts and notifications. I'm not quite sure how it's implemented in our environment but as noted I see only a host down alert, all the services checks do not occur. When a host comes back up then yes I am flooded as the time to get to normal operations exceeds the check interval for the various services we check, until everything is back in OK state (if...). Of course again we still use v1.x and I can't speak to configuration let alone differences with web based version 2.x Interesting question, I can reach out to our architect latter in the day Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 16, 2016, at 8:27 AM, Antony Stone > <antony.st...@icinga.open.source.it> wrote: > >> On Thursday 16 June 2016 at 14:20:00, Felix Cruz wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Process wise it makes no sense to power off machines especially if they >> require monitoring. > > Of course it makes sense to power off development machines, when they're not > being used for development. They might need more frequent hardware changes > than production machines, too, which also means more frequent "host down" > situations. > >> How would you automate the handling of a random power off event with unknown >> time interval, or distinguish it from a genuine unhandled event that >> requires an action? > > I think what the original poster is getting at is that there is a requirement > to monitor *services* such as disk capacity, perhaps network traffic, etc, > but > there is no requirement to perform *host* monitoring - if the machine goes > off, > no alert is needed, however if the disk gets close to being full, an alert is > required. > > As the original email in this thread asked: "Is there a way to monitor > servers > only when they are powered on?" > > Therefore a power down event is not considered of interest, but no other > alerts are required when the machine is powered down either. > > > Regards, > > > Antony. > > -- > "If I've told you once, I've told you a million times - stop exaggerating!" > > Please reply to the list; > please *don't* CC me. > _______________________________________________ > icinga-users mailing list > icinga-users@lists.icinga.org > https://lists.icinga.org/mailman/listinfo/icinga-users _______________________________________________ icinga-users mailing list icinga-users@lists.icinga.org https://lists.icinga.org/mailman/listinfo/icinga-users
