newbie question...

[Marc Powell]

On May 30, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Arnar Þórarinsson wrote:

> Hi all,
> How can I make it so that if a host goes down Nagios will only  
> report the host down and not all the services on that host ?
> All I want to get is a  host down alert.
> Yes I know RTFM... but I have and I can't seem to find this in the  
> docs.

Nagios will only send an e-mail for the single Host down event but  
will always display both the host and services as down (because they  
are). This is not configurable behavior and I can't think of any  
creative way to change the status of the services in that event that  
isn't a pain...

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Marc
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