RE: [Nagios-users] Suppressing service notifications if host fails

2006-01-16 Thread Marc Powell


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 [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.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/networkreachability.html -
Monitoring Services on Down or Unreachable Hosts
 
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Marc 


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RE: [Nagios-users] Suppressing service notifications if host fails

2006-01-16 Thread Marc Powell


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 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.

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Marc


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Re: [Nagios-users] Suppressing service notifications if host fails

2006-01-16 Thread Mott Leroy

Hi Marc -

Thanks for the quick response. Our check_command *seems* to be properly 
configured. it uses a check-host-alive plugin, and it DID return a 
CRITICAL state, but looking more closely at the logs, it seems like it 
wasn't reported as critical until some 4 hours or so after all the 
services reported themselves as CRITICAL. Don't individual services 
check on the health of their host? Why wouldn't it report the host as 
down until so much later?


All our hosts are defined as:

check_command   check-host-alive
max_check_attempts  10
notification_interval   120
notification_period 24x7
notification_optionsd,u,r

Where check-host-alive is:

define command{
command_namecheck-host-alive
command_line$USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 
5000,100% -c 5000,100% -p 1

}

Thanks for any insight -

Mott


Marc Powell wrote:



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



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