Services are dependent on the host they run on?

[Roberto Nunnari]

Hi Mark.


Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something but I thought that suppressing notifications for services on the same host when the host goes down is the default behavior.  It's only when you have to suppress notifications from different hosts that you need host/service dependencies.

That's exactly what I was expecting, but it doesn't seem to work that 
way.. at least not for me.

Yesterday for instance, a host went down because of a hd controller 
failure, and I received 22 sms..

Robi


> 
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Assaf Flatto [mailto:nagios at flatto.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 1:39 PM
> To: Nagios Users List
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Services are dependent on the host they run on?
> 
> Martin Hugo wrote:
>> Hi Robi,
>>
>> I have never done it but I know you can make hosts/services children that will not report if the parent is down.
>>
>> Hope this puts you on the right track.
>>
>> Marty
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Roberto Nunnari [mailto:roberto.nunnari at supsi.ch] 
>> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 12:47 PM
>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: [Nagios-users] Services are dependent on the host they run on?
>>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> Some time ago, I've installed and configured nagios to monitor our IT 
>> infrastructure.
>>
>> It works very well and we're happy with it.
>>
>> There's still one problem though:
>> When a host goes down, nagios sends notifications not only for host 
>> down, but also for all services running on that host. When a host goes 
>> down, I would like nagios to only send notifications about the host 
>> down, and not for all the services running on that host.
>>
>> How can I achive that?
>> May it be a configuration error from my side? I thought that to nagios, 
>> services would be dependent from the host running them..
>>
>> Any hint/advice/guidance is very welcome.
>>
>> Thank you and best regards.
>>
>> Robi
>>   
> check out service dependencies
> 
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/dependencies.html


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