i'm looking into both ideas and thanks to both of you. I read the service dependency docs and cam out with what is below. would something like this solve my problems?
define servicedependency {
hostgroup_name grp1,grp2,grp3
service_description PING
dependent_hostgroup_name grp1,grp2,grp3
dependent_service_description *
execution_failure_criteria n
notification_failure_criteria w,u,c
}
Steve Shipway wrote:
>>i'd like to just get the ping notification and to ignore the
>>nrpe checks
>> until ping has recovered.
>>
>>is there an easy way to do this?
>
>
> I modified the check_nrpe (and check_nt, too) code so that a 'connection
> refused', timeout or protocol error would result in an unknown, rather than
> a critical. This also means I get 'unknown' if the NRPE agent is not
> running (which is what I want, since the host is not necessarily in a
> critical state).
>
> Works for us, but you might want a failing agent to produce a critical. If
> this is the case, just add a flag to make this behaviour disableable.
>
> Steve
>
>
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