Personally, I would just define a new group with all the same services except that master service in it. You would have two nearly identical groups then; I'm not sure if that would be a problem for you.
Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 2012-11-28 16:40, Tech Support wrote: > Thank you. That’s extremely helpful information. I have one problem though. > Because the master service that the service group depends on is also part of > the service group, I'm getting (an expected) error about the circular > dependency. Is there an easy way around that? > Thanks; > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mathieu Gagné [mailto:mga...@iweb.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 3:33 PM > To: Nagios Users List > Cc: Tech Support > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Defining a service dependency for large number > of services > > Hi, > > On 12-11-27 2:30 PM, Tech Support wrote: >> >> I need to define service dependencies for some services. Pretty >> straightforward stuff, do not check service B unless service A is >> running also. For example, I have 100 different service checks that >> all depend on service A. So my question is this. Is there an easy way >> to define a dependency for a large number of services? Any insight at >> all would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks; >> > > You can use this trick: > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objecttricks.html#same_host_dependenc > y_with_servicegroups > > I use it to massively add service dependencies for all NRPE based service > checks on the NRPE service running on the same host as the NRPE based > service checks. > > -- > Mathieu > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: > INSIGHTS What's next for parallel hardware, programming and related areas? > Interviews and blogs by thought leaders keep you ahead of the curve. > http://goparallel.sourceforge.net > _______________________________________________ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: VERIFY Test and improve your parallel project with help from experts and peers. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ 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