service dependencies on a single host?

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 14/10/08 01:29 PM, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently monitoring many services on certain hosts via SNMP, and
> making extensive use of host groups to ease configuration for my
> several hundred hosts.
> 
> On occasion, the SNMP service on a host fails.  This triggers dozens
> of alarms.  I would like to have each service checked via SNMP depend
> on the base SNMP service, so that when SNMP fails I only get one
> alarm.  I investigated service dependencies, but they don't seem
> amenable to hostgroup-friendly configuration.
> 
> If I do something like:
> 
> define servicedependency {
> 	hostgroup_name		NetSnmpServers
> 	service_description	Snmp
> 	dependent_host_name	NetSnmpServers
> 	...
> }
> 
> that obviously isn't going to work.
> 
> Surely other people have encountered this before?  Any suggestions?

same-host dependencies (or something similar) implemented in Nagios
v3.0. Just omit the dependent_host*_name and dependencies will only
occur within the same hosts. You can therefore apply it to hostsgroups
without having deps between hosts.

I have a patch for 2.x around if you need.

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Thomas
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