Suppressing service notifications if host fails

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Marc Powell
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 3:11 PM
> To: Mott Leroy; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Suppressing service notifications if host
> fails
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mott Leroy
> > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 2:54 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Suppressing service notifications if host
> fails
> >
> > Hi -
> >
> > When a host goes down, we still receive failure notices for all the
> > services on that host. It seems like this is a clear dependency,
such
> > that a failure on a host should suppress its service notifications.
> >
> > I looked in the manual and saw the section on service dependencies
and
> > host dependencies but it seemed those were only for 'host to host'
or
> > 'service to service' dependencies, not the basic host -> service
> > dependency.
> >
> > Using Nagois 2.0b3.
> >
> > Thanks if you could point me in the right direction -
> 
> Nagios will automagically suppress service notifications for down
hosts
> if you have a properly configured host check_command that returns
> CRICITAL or UNREACHABLE when the host is down.

[edit] of course there is no UNREACHABLE status result from a plugin.
That's determined internally by Nagios based on the 'parents' directive
for each host. [/edit]

Sorry about that slight mis-information.

--
Marc


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