Nagios Service Dependencies

[Jim Avery]

2009/5/7 Dei Bertine <deibertine at yahoo.com>:
> Basic question guys:
>
> Which file do you normally place your service dependencies in?
>
> It stated here: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/dependencies.html
> to place in objects cfg file which I thought placing it in my nagios.cfg????
>
> But when I did, it complained about this error after running -v:
> Error in configuration file 'nagios.cfg' - Line 2859 (NULL value)
>
>
> Here's a sample of my definition:
> define servicedependency{
>        host_name                       ciscoasa-router
>        service_description             PING
>        dependent_host_name             ciscosw-router
>        dependent_service_description   PING
>        execution_failure_criteria      o
>        notification_failure_criteria   w,u
>        }
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thank you!
> DB

I would put service dependencies in a file called something like
'servicedependencies.cfg'.

in nagios.cfg, you need a pointer to this new file, for example:

cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/servicedependencies.cfg

The nagios.cfg file should only contain the main configuration file
options which you'll find documented in
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/configmain.html

But ... I'm not convinced you should need service dependencies for
'ping' from one host to another.  Nagios handles this sort of thing
automatically if you configure the host parent relationships.  See:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/networkreachability.html

hth,

Jim

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