Why separate hosts and services

[Matthew Kent]

> Another way would be to report the "path" through the "service tree"
> to
> the failed service in the notification message. This might actually
> help
> fault diagnosis. For example, if you receive separate notifications
> that 4
> machines behind the same router have gone down at the same time, then
> you
> might assume that the router might be at fault.
> 
> At the moment, with the current notification architecture, I don't
> think
> you can have enough information to do that, without looking at the
> status
> CGIs or knowing from memory that the hosts are all behind the same
> router
> (which doesn't scale well :-)

I believe what your talking about is already implemented here
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/networkreachability.html

If the parent of a host goes down, notifications of its children will be
suppressed.

Forgive the Outlook mangling,
- matt


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