Service Configuration Question

[Andreas Ericsson]

Service checks that aren't subject to user-error should return critical 
when experiencing network problems (no data received, for instance).
UNKNOWN should only be returned when bad parameters have been passed to 
the plugin, or when the files or directories the plugin depends on are 
missing.

Because of a lot of the plugin authors fail to conform to that standard, 
nagios has a hard time doing The Right Thing and keeping users happy at 
the same time.

Michael Eck wrote:
> Is there any way to configure a service so that Nagios only performs the 
> host check when a particular non-OK state is returned by the service 
> check?  For example, I have a service check that, when in a critical or 
> warning state, the host is necessarily up (it's an SNMP value), but when 
> in an unknown state the host may be down.  My problem is that Nagios is 
> performing too many host checks on hosts that are clearly up but in a 
> non-OK state.  I'm either missing something in the check logic, missing 
> a configuration directive, or Nagios can't do this.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> ----
> Michael Eck
> Chilitech Internet Solutions
> Network Operations Center
> 570-323-2166
> http://www.chilitech.net
> 
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Mvh / Best regards
Sourcerer / Andreas Ericsson
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