Question regarding Dependencies

[Dale Hobbs]

For give me if this question has been asked before. I have read the docs
in regards to dependencies but am still a bit unclear as to the internal
workings.

 

If I have 3 servers (www1, www2, www3) on the outside of my firewall
with the following dependencies set up for each of the 3 servers:

 

define hostdependency{

        host_name                       www1

        dependent_host_name        firewall

        notification_failure_criteria   d,u

        }

 

If my firewall goes down, obviously it will notify me that the firewall
is down but will it also notify me that it can't contact each of the 3
servers as well? Also if one of the servers goes down is Nagios smart
enough to check the firewall first to make sure that it is still
available before notifying me that the server is down in case that it
can't contact the server because the firewall is down?

 

 

 

Dale Hobbs 
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