Too stupid? Services are available, but nagios reports host to be down!

[Wojciech Kocjan]

Dnia 08-04-2008 o 14:21:08 Heiko Schlittermann <hs at schlittermann.de>  
napisał(a):

> Hello,
>
> Valdinger, Stephen (DOV, MSX) <svalding at doverchem.com> (Di 08 Apr 2008  
> 13:58:36 CEST):
>> Just rewrite the check-host-alive plugin for the unpingable hosts to  
>> something bogus like check_null for some bogus output. Or use a  
>> different check command other than a ping for the check-host alive.
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
> But - a bogus check returning "OK" would be wrong too, because the host
> *can* be down.
>
> The host should assumed to be UP if *any* service check on this host was
> successful. The host should assumed to be DOWN, if all service checks
> failed.
>
> Any suggestion anybody?

That one would be non-trivial, but perhaps the check command could read  
current status for the host and only do test if there are no services  
currently in OK state? Otherwise it would return the host is UP.

-- 
Wojciech Kocjan

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