Lame service dependency

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Budde II
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 1:40 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Lame service dependency
> 
> I am testing my startup of nagios and I am getting a "Warning:
Ignoring
> lame
> service dependency (config file
'/usr/local/nagios/etc/dependencies.cfg',
> line #" for every dependency I have created.  Basically I have created
a
> ping that pings each host server.
> 
> Then, for the webserver I am doing an individual HTTP check to each IP
> address of every site on the server.  I have made these dependent upon
the
> successful server ping so that if the server itself is ever down I
only
> get
> the one message from not being able to ping it.
> 
> Can anyone help me out with why I am getting the message and if there
is a
> better way I should be doing this?

I can't speak to the service dependencies as I don't use them myself but
I believe in your case they are not necessary at all. When any service
on a host returns a non-OK state, Nagios immediately checks the state of
the host using the hosts check_command. If that returns a non-OK state,
a host notification only is sent out and all service notifications for
that host are suppressed until the host recovers.

--
Marc


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