Dependencies - a little confused.

[Leonardo Henrique Machado]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:55:06 -0500, Eric Loyd <loyd at cyber.kodak.com> wrote:
>  Emmett Hogan wrote: 
>  Okay...now I am REALLY confused.  I do not understand why you would need to
> make all services dependent on a check_ping service when the Nagios
> Documentation states:
>
>"Whenever a service check results in a non-OK status level, Nagios
will attempt to > check and see if the host that the service is
running on is "alive". Typically this is > done by pinging the host
and seeing if any response is received. If the host check > command
returns a non-OK state, Nagios assumes that there is a problem with
>the host. In this situation Nagios will "silence" all potential
alerts for services
>running on the host and just notify the appropriate contacts that the
host is down > or unreachable. If the host check command returns an OK
state, Nagios will
> recognize that the host is alive and will send out an alert for the service that is
 > misbehaving."

It says "silence alerts" and not "stop all service checks". Isn't it
related just to notifications?



-- 
Leonardo Henrique Machado


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