Service alerts for a host that is down

[Scott Lambert]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:58:54PM -0700, Justin Fitzhugh wrote:
> The reason this is needed is that I will have different contact groups
> associated with a service on a host than the actual host itself.  For
> example, if the application group is responsible for an app, but the UNIX
> team is responsible for the machine - The app team wants to know their app
> went down, but they want to know it went down because the server is down
> (like dependencies) and of course the UNIX team wants to know the server is
> down.  Without code modifications, I don't know if this is possible, but I
> thought I would ask :)

List the service as a service on a dummy host with an IP of 127.0.0.1.
You will have to specify the IP address of the real host in the service
check arguments.  Your dummy host will be up anytime your nagios box is
functional.
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thiago Conde Figueiró [mailto:thiago at ntime.com.br] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:01 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Service alerts for a host that is down
> 
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:12:15 -0700
> Justin Fitzhugh <jfitzhugh at macromedia.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have a requirement where I need the service alerts to be sent out
> > (hopefully as an unreachable alert) for a host even when that host is
> > down. As I understand it, no service alerts will be sent for a host
> > that is deemed to be down.  Is this possible?
> 
> 	Do you really need this?  If you send out an alert for host isn't
> that
> enough?  Cause if the host is down all services on it are down as well.
> 
> 	Of course you can always edit the source code and change it.
> There's
> no other way to do it, at least that I know of.  If I'm wrong, someone
> please correct me.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
>   Thiago Figueiró          Gerência de Operações
> thiago at ntime.com.br        Cel.: (21) 8817-3632 
> 
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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert at lambertfam.org      


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