Re: [Nagios-users] fast reboot

[Michael T. <mt...@ai...>]

On Friday, January 16, 2004, at 01:27  PM, Neil wrote:

> hey guys,
> what if we are monitoring a server in the interval of 2 minutes then 
> the server we are monitoring went down but was able to reboot in just 
> 45 seconds? How does nagios takes care of this situation?
> Thanks.
> neil
>

You could create a service to report the system's uptime. If the number 
is small (indicating a reboot), issue an alert. You didn't say what OS 
the monitored server is running; if it's a flavor of Unix, you can use 
the "uptime" command.

Just a thought.

Yours,
Michael