Services check and unreachable host status

[Andreas Ericsson]

Gabes Jean wrote:
> Hi list,
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> I'm running Nagios 2.5 (not 3 because I use Oreon and It doesn't support
> it for the moment :( ). I've got a lot of distant host, so I use
> parent/child relation between servers and routers. So I don't receive
> notification if the host are in a unreachable state. All is good in the
> host level. The problem I've got is that the services of theses servers
> are checked. They do not send me alert (no u flag in the service
> notification definition), but the information of CRITICAL state is in
> the nagios.log. The web interface show me error in theses hosts because
> the error is present in the nagios.log.
> 
> Is there a way to put service in state UNKNOWN (and do not make the
> check) when the host is in an UNREACHABLE state?
> 

No there isn't, and that would be lying, basically, since the services
aren't actually working when the host serving them is down.

> 
> I can try to patch, the main service function seem to be the
> run_service_check (base/check.c), isn't it?
> 

You will need to add your patch after the state-change detection logic
has been applied in reap_service_checks(), which will force the host
check to run only if a service changes state.

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