force service check when other fails

[Patrick Morris]

Hi Brandino!

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007, Brandino Andreas wrote:

> Is any way to force nagios to check a service when an other fails?
> What i want to do:
> I have a service. When it fails i would like to check the ste of a
> second service. If both failed then it would send an email about the 1st only.
> The important part is that i want the 2nd service to be checked after the failue
> of the first service.
> 
> Serviceescalation are a workaround, but they dont "force" a check
> of the 2nd service when the first one fails.
> 
> Also, the first two notifications cant be escalated according to
> manual. Is any other way to handle them?

Use an eventhandler and submit a SCHEDULE_SVC_CHECK through the external
command interface on a non-OK state.

If you only want an alert if both fail, you'll probably still want a
dependency to handle that.

I'm not sure what you mean with your last sentence.  You can escalate
whenever you want.

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