> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Powell > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 3:11 PM > To: Mott Leroy; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Suppressing service notifications if host > fails > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mott Leroy > > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 2:54 PM > > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [Nagios-users] Suppressing service notifications if host > fails > > > > Hi - > > > > When a host goes down, we still receive failure notices for all the > > services on that host. It seems like this is a clear dependency, such > > that a failure on a host should suppress its service notifications. > > > > I looked in the manual and saw the section on service dependencies and > > host dependencies but it seemed those were only for 'host to host' or > > 'service to service' dependencies, not the basic host -> service > > dependency. > > > > Using Nagois 2.0b3. > > > > Thanks if you could point me in the right direction - > > Nagios will automagically suppress service notifications for down hosts > if you have a properly configured host check_command that returns > CRICITAL or UNREACHABLE when the host is down.
[edit] of course there is no UNREACHABLE status result from a plugin. That's determined internally by Nagios based on the 'parents' directive for each host. [/edit] Sorry about that slight mis-information. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
