priority: host or service who's really on top?

Morris, Patrick patrick.morris at hp.com
Tue Mar 9 17:32:50 CET 2010


alexus wrote:
>> If the service check fails, I think Nagios would check the host
>> anyway.  You might like to run a test to confirm this.
>>     
>
> testing yes, but your answer didn't cover any part of my question at
> all other then you suggest to test it..
>
> anyone else actually knows the answer? i was thinking maybe not to
> specify timeperiod inside of service and let it take it from host
> definition?
>   

Hosts and services are independent of each other; neither has precedence.

If you specify a timeperiod on your service checks, it applies to your 
service checks. If you apply it to your host checks, it applies to your 
host checks. They are two different things.

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