--On Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:37 AM +0200 "\"rueh hänä\"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is something wrong with my dependencies? Or is it not possible to make more than one service depending on another service? And, are dependencies over different hostgroups possible?
I think the problem is that you're expecting more from dependencies then they provide. Assuming you have dependency behavior set to 'm' what will happen is that test X won't be run if test Y has already detected a failure. But if the failure occurs *between* when Y was last run and when X is run then X will detect the failure first.
The answer to this is to have virtually every service have at least an 'alertafter 2' setting, so that two consecutive failures have to be detected, and have the higher-order tests have shorter test intervals. i.e. for my web servers I have mon configured to ping them every 30 seconds, check their load average via snmp every 45 seconds, test http every minute, and test https every five minutes. (And the router between my monitoring host and the web server is pinged every 15 seconds...)
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