Multi-level service dependencies... not working

[Tom DE BLENDE]

Gentlemen,

I hope I can be the bringer of good news. I had the same problem back 
in the Netsaint days. The issue is indeed what mister Hopcroft is 
referring to: service dependencies only seem to work when the service 
is in a hard state.

However, there is a setting you can add to your nagios.cfg:

soft_state_dependencies=1

This should solve your problems as Nagios will now act upon soft 
service states as well. It worked for me.

Hope this works out for you.

Tom

Stanley Hopcroft wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> 
> FWIW, I think I have seen the same problem with single level
> dependencies: if the service that depends on the other is checked first,
> it doesn't matter what the state of the dependency is.
> 
> It only seems to work (for me) when the dependency is actually in a hard
> state.
> 
> If this is the case, in your example, were you to make G depend directly
> on A, I think you would see the same results as you see already.
> 
> All I can suggest is
> 
> . check to see if there is a dependency debug option in
> configure. Otherwise, enable service checking debugging and you may see
> service checks scheduled regardless of the state of the dependency (if
> the dependency is not in a hard critical state)
> 
> . post a problem report if that is the case.
> 
> Yours sincerely.
>  -- 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Stanley Hopcroft
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
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> Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
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> me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
> for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'
> 
> from Meditation 17, J Donne.
> 
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