Suppressing service notifications if host fails

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mott Leroy
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 2:54 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Suppressing service notifications if host
fails
> 
> Hi -
> 
> When a host goes down, we still receive failure notices for all the
> services on that host. It seems like this is a clear dependency, such
> that a failure on a host should suppress its service notifications.
> 
> I looked in the manual and saw the section on service dependencies and
> host dependencies but it seemed those were only for 'host to host' or
> 'service to service' dependencies, not the basic host -> service
> dependency.
> 
> Using Nagois 2.0b3.
> 
> Thanks if you could point me in the right direction -

Nagios will automagically suppress service notifications for down hosts
if you have a properly configured host check_command that returns
CRICITAL or UNREACHABLE when the host is down.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/networkreachability.html -
Monitoring Services on Down or Unreachable Hosts
 
--
Marc 


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