Service notifications for a down host?
Aidan Anderson
mail at aidananderson.co.uk
Tue Nov 20 03:36:23 CET 2007
Doug Tabb wrote:
>
> I’m looking for a little behavior confirmation here, please. It’s my
> understanding that a failed service check is one way a host check is
> initiated. If Nagios determines the host is down, further service
> problem notifications are suppressed. However, I still get one or more
> notifications for the initial service problems. Wouldn’t Nagios
> suppress those initial service checks until at least one host check
> has been made?
>
> For illustration, I have a remote site with host parent/child
> relationships configured. If the site goes down, I get about 2 dozen
> service notifications from various child hosts before it realizes the
> top parent host is down and suppresses notifications for that site. I
> then receive the one host recovery along with the 2 dozen or so
> service recovery messages. I had hoped to not receive any service
> notifications in this scenario. Is this expected behavior?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Doug Tabb
>
You shouldn't be seeing this behavior. The only time your should see
this is if your services enter a hard state before the hosts. How does
your host retry attempts compare to your service retry attempts?
Aidan
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