Re: [Nagios-users] Host down, still doing active checks, causing multiple unwanted service failures

2008-12-12 Thread Toussaint OTTAVI
Hi, Marc Powell a écrit: Our ideas of accuracy would seem to differ ;) Sometimes, in life, it's necessary to be able to say : I don't know. When a host is simply powered off, or unreachable due to network/wan failure, Nagios actually displays all the service checks with the results

Re: [Nagios-users] Host down, still doing active checks, causing multiple unwanted service failures

2008-12-09 Thread Toussaint OTTAVI
Hi Mark, thank you for your answer, Marc Powell a écrit: Nagios is first and foremost a service monitor, not a host monitor. Host monitoring is only necessary, as far as nagios is concerned, for two reasons -- - notification supression. If the host is down, don't notify about the

Re: [Nagios-users] Host down, still doing active checks, causing multiple unwanted service failures

2008-12-09 Thread Toussaint OTTAVI
Toussaint OTTAVI a écrit: Following this idea, I will investigate the following : - Hosts associated themselves with parent/child relationship according to WAN topology (already working) - For each host, I will create a parent service with only a check_alive command - Every other service

Re: [Nagios-users] Host down, still doing active checks, causing multiple unwanted service failures

2008-12-09 Thread Marc Powell
On Dec 9, 2008, at 5:35 AM, Toussaint OTTAVI wrote: I agree with you. Parenting / unreachable logic is a very good thing. But I think it should allow to declare a service as a child of its host. This parent/child logic can suppress 'notifications'. I think it could also suppress the

[Nagios-users] Host down, still doing active checks, causing multiple unwanted service failures

2008-12-08 Thread Toussaint OTTAVI
Hi list, I've been investigating this problem for a while, but I couldn't find a good solution. * Example situation : Assume I have one host with 20 service checks. * Problem : If the host becomes DOWN, Nagios still continues to do service checks on this host. So, after a while, all the

Re: [Nagios-users] Host down, still doing active checks, causing multiple unwanted service failures

2008-12-08 Thread Marc Powell
On Dec 8, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Toussaint OTTAVI wrote: Hi list, I've been investigating this problem for a while, but I couldn't find a good solution. * Example situation : Assume I have one host with 20 service checks. * Problem : If the host becomes DOWN, Nagios still continues to do