passive checks and host down alerts

[Terry]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Marc Powell<marc at ena.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 24, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Terry wrote:
>
>> As you can see here, I have active checks disabled.  However, in the
>> web interface, it is showing active checks as enabled.
>>
>> 1. why?
>
> Someone enabled them through the GUI and the status is possibly being
> retained (see the documentation about Retention) _or_ you have
> multiple nagios daemons running, one with an old config with it
> enabled and one with a new config with it disabled.
>
>> 2. If I have a host that has 5 active check services and 1 passive
>> check service and all 5 of the active services goes down, will it
>> consider the host down and suppress those notifications and only send
>> the host down alert?
>
> Only if you have a working host check_command. Active/passive services
> or number of services down makes no difference at all. When any
> service on a host fails, the host's check_command is run. If that
> returns a non-OK result, notifications for services on the host are
> suppressed until the host recovers and a single host notification is
> sent (if specified). If it returns an OK result (or isn't specified),
> notifications are not suppressed for services on that host.
>
> --
> Marc

Oh, I had the host check logic all wrong in my head.  I went ahead and
disabled all active checks in the servicegroup and see where that
takes me.  Thanks for your help!

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