dont check service when host down

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Detrak
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 8:47 AM
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I'm using nagios to check a lot of host and service. When a host is
coming
> down, nagios continue to check the service attached to this host. It's
> consume a lot of performance, it's trivial to know that when a host is
> down, we dont get a response from the service associate...
> 
> how can I fix that ? please

Nagios does what you're asking for by default if you have a host
check_command that correctly determines the status of the host.

Check the first two paragraphs of
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/networkreachability.html.

--
Marc

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