Freshness checking and host dependies

[Matthias Mikuletz]

Hi there,

I'm experiencing a problem with nagios doing too many notifications.

We're talking about a distributed setup, where a slave server (firewall A)
is submitting service check results of itself and of another system B
behind it to the nagios master.
System B is depending (via the parent directive) on firewall A. So, if A
has e.g. a network problem, then missing results from B shouldn't lead to
e.g. notifications.
Furthermore I have enabled freshness checking on the nagios master to
ensure that the results from system B are coming in.

When I pull out the cable from firewall A then I get a host down for
firewall A (certainly this is absolutely OK).
But then I keep getting problem alerts for the services on system B.

So freshness checking or the (dummy) active check, which is performed,
when results are found to be stale doesn't care about host dependencies
(via 'parent') ?!

I woudl be glad to know if this a bug or a feature?!

Thanks in advance and thanks to Ethan for nagios!
Matthias


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