Defining a service dependency for large number of services

[Tech Support]

Thank you. That’s extremely helpful information. I have one problem though.
Because the master service that the service group depends on is also part of
the service group, I'm getting (an expected) error about the circular
dependency. Is there an easy way around that?
Thanks;
John

-----Original Message-----
From: Mathieu Gagné [mailto:mgagne at iweb.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 3:33 PM
To: Nagios Users List
Cc: Tech Support
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Defining a service dependency for large number
of services

Hi,

On 12-11-27 2:30 PM, Tech Support wrote:
>
>      I need to define service dependencies for some services. Pretty 
> straightforward stuff, do not check service B unless service A is 
> running also. For example, I have 100 different service checks that 
> all depend on service A. So my question is this. Is there an easy way 
> to define a dependency for a large number of services? Any insight at 
> all would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks;
>

You can use this trick:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objecttricks.html#same_host_dependenc
y_with_servicegroups

I use it to massively add service dependencies for all NRPE based service
checks on the NRPE service running on the same host as the NRPE based
service checks.

--
Mathieu


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