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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For give me if this question has been asked before. I have
read the docs in regards to dependencies but am still a bit unclear as to the
internal workings.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>If I have 3 servers (www1, www2, www3) on the outside of my
firewall with the following dependencies set up for each of the 3 servers:</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>define hostdependency{</span></font></p>
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host_name
www1</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> dependent_host_name
firewall</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> notification_failure_criteria
d,u</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> }</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>If my firewall goes down, obviously it will notify me that
the firewall is down but will it also notify me that it can’t contact
each of the 3 servers as well? Also if one of the servers goes down is Nagios
smart enough to check the firewall first to make sure that it is still
available before notifying me that the server is down in case that it can’t
contact the server because the firewall is down?</span></font></p>
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