Service Dependencies - How do you do yours?

[Hari Sekhon]

Hi,
   I'm using NRPE to check a lot of things, but it occurs to me that if 
nrpe goes down, I will receive a storm of emails about all the things 
that it checks.

So I want to create service_dependencies which say, for example, "all 
Ram checks must depend on check serviceX on the same host" where 
"serviceX" is also an nrpe check that always succeeds.
Therefore, if NRPE breaks for any reason, it should only alert me once 
for serviceX

Of course, I'm not sure this could be done in a very easily templated 
way. I've had a look at the templating docs again but it seems to me 
that group hosts or service together will create a lattice of 
dependencies across hosts or services which will probably mean that any 
broken service on any host will prevent all dependent services from 
sending notifications for any other host.

Any ideas on this?

-h

-- 
Hari Sekhon


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