logic/feature request for dependencies

[Andreas Ericsson]

jmoseley at pgtv.com wrote:
> Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se> wrote:
> 
>> If the host and all of its parents are down, notifications will be
> suppressed.
>> If one of the hosts parents are up, notifications will be sent normally.
>> If anything else happens, then that is a bug.
> 
> Not so according to the network reachability documentation.  UNREACHABLE
> notifications will be sent, if turned on.  It states:
> 
> If you do have unreachable notifications turned on in the hosts config,
> then your only option of controlling/repressing those notifications during
> a major outage is via the dependency config.  But the dependency
> documentation clearly states that if only one 'parent' of a dependent host
> is down, notifications will be suppressed:
> 
> -If even just one of the notification dependencies for a host fails, Nagios
> will temporarily repress notifications for that (dependent) host.
> 
> So, perhaps the solution is to simply disable UNREACHABLE notifications in
> the hosts config?


Yes. Seeing as you're one of those few who has actually read the docs, I
mistakenly thought you'd shot a glance at this already :)

Disabling UNREACHABLE notifications and using parent/child relationships is
the standard way of achieving what you, insofar as I understand it, want.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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