[TriLUG] Availability reporting: nagios vs big brother

[Owen Berry]

You can either disable notifications for the host, or you can put the
host in downtime to stop getting paged. I would suggest installing
Nagios and playing with it to make sure it does what you want before
looking at changing.  It's pretty easy to get it running on a
workstation for monitoring of a few hosts for testing.

Owen

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 08:58:18AM -0400, Paul G. Szabady wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I have a question related to the server availability reporting in big
> brother vs nagios.  We currently use big brother, yet when there's an
> outage, we disable monitoring.  This minimizes email and paging noise
> while working on the issue(s).  The downfall is that the availability
> report data gets skewed and doesn't show an accurate representation of
> server uptime.  Does nagios have the ability to stop paging, but continue
> monitoring so that the availability reports are accurate?  According to
> the manual, it seems to be that way, but I'd like to make sure before I
> suggest moving from BB to nagios.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Paul
> @ Thy Service