A note to network administrators everywhere

When making changes to your network layout, be sure to update the monitoring program as well (e.g. Nagios). If you don’t, and the IPs are different enough, and you wait a while before updating the mail server on the monitoring server…

Well, let’s just say that the queued up E-Mails are still coming in half an hour later, and it’s only for the last three days of “trouble” notifications, though thankfully it’s down to a rate of about one E-Mail per second due to throttling.

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