Dependancy clarification

[Petr Simek]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, James Whittington wrote:

> I am checking a 30 - 40 internet facing services out of a backup
> internet link we have.  Each website I manage is set as a host, the
> website hostgroup uses check_http to check websites.
>
> When there are hickups on the internet link I get 30 or so pages telling
> me all the sites are down.
>
> The current route would be:
> Nagios - SOHO - Cable modem - Internet - Pix - Websites
>
> I have tried to set up service dependancies where each segment of the
> way depends on each other:
> Cable Modem depends on SOHO being up
> Internet depends on Cable modem being up
> Pix depends on Internet access point being up
> Websites depend on PIX being up
>
> But I disconnected the cable modem and still got notifications that the
> sites were down.

See if cable modem DOWN state is detected before dependend sites are
detected as DOWN (max_atempts x normal_check_interval). Then You can
define in dependencies that next checks of dependent sites is supressed.

> James Whittington


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