host, no service

[Joe Rhett]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 11:24:13AM -0600, Marc Powell wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 30, 2004 8:26 AM, Robert Nelson shared with us:
> > Host checks only occur when ALL service checks fail, not when ANY
> > fail, correct? 
> 
> No, to the best of my knowledge, there is no service status correlation
> that happens. If any single service fails on a host, a host check is
> initiated unless the last check of a host showed it being down or
> unreachable (my interpretation of checks.c and I'm not a programmer ;)
> ). You could of course test this fairly easily if it's that important to
> you.
 
When any one service check fails, a host check is scheduled.  The host
check is done before any more service checks, to avoid lots of service
checks which fail.

This is all very well documented, why is nobody reading the docs?

-- 
Joe Rhett                                                      Chief Geek
JRhett at Isite.Net                                      Isite Services, Inc.


-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials
Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of
GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system
administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null