service dependencies not catching all

[Assaf Flatto]

>
> There is an automatic service->host dependency that suppresses
> notifications for all services that are on hosts in a non-UP state, so this
> seems like an exercise in futility to me.

In that case can you point me to the location where i configure nagios to respond that way , since 
it is not working in my setup ( nagios 3.0.6 from source , on SLES 10.2) ?

> > define servicedependency{
> >         host_name                  *
> >         service_description             PING
> >         dependent_host_name        *
> >         dependent_service_description   *
> >         execution_failure_criteria      c,u,w
> >         notification_failure_criteria   c,u,w
> >         inherits_parent
> > }
> >  In my calculation i should be having a list of 2400 dependencies and in
> > the "show config- > service dependencies " it should generate a list of
> > 4800 lines .
>
> This would add 360*360*(2400-$services_named_PING) dependencies.
> Assuming you have one PING service on each host, that's a total of
> 264384000 service-dependencies. *ALL* those dependencies would be
> circular, so this simply cannot be how you have configured Nagios.

I hate to disagree , but this is the setting i have in my nagios and i do no have the "264384000 " 
dependencies .


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