[Nagiosplug-help] too many alerts

[C. Bensend]

> We just upgraded the switch that the machine nagios is on is connected
> to. I forgot to stop nagios before this happened and subsequently
> received about 35 SMS messages.

"Oops."  :)

> Is there a way to limit the number of alerts that can be sent in a given
> time frame?

Not that _I_ know of...  But, if the switch has a reachable LAN IP address,
wouldn't it be good to add it as a parent to the connected hosts?  That
way, you would have gotten just one page.

Benny


-- 
"You were doing well until everyone died."
                                                    -- "God", Futurama