lot's of unknowns

[Terry L. Inzauro]

Aurimas Mikalauskas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have this strange problem and I'm looking for an answer hopefully in
> the right place. I'm new to nagios and I'm sure I'm just missing
> something:
> 
> Most of checks are done via snmp. And if snmp daemon on the server
> crashes, I get lot's of emails and smss saying that the service
> states are unknown (and I think - damn, it'd be better if the host was
> unreachable). Is there any way to make nagios believe that if it gets
> more than two unknown states in one check period for the same host,
> probably it's just a simple disaster and it could only send a simple
> notice - "man, your server is almost dead - only two out of the 20
> services you are checking are still in a KNOWN state!"?
> 
> Thank you in advance!
> 
> Respectfully,
> Aurimas
> 
> 
> 
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i believe you can accomplish this by setting up service dependecies. 
just setup your snmp check to depend on check_procs or something of the 
likeing.....or if you want to be really simple, check_tcp (snmp port).


_Terry





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