On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hey guys-
I think you may get into trouble with half the planet here. ;-)
> i have a problem that i wanted to put an entire computer lab (24 PCs)
> under one host in nagios, and have a ping command for each machine as a
> service of the host. i wrote a new ping command that uses the
> $SERVICEDESC$ variable, and then i just use the hostname of the PC for
> the service description.
>
> anyway, the issue is that when a notification gets sent out, i get a
> notice that the host (lab) is DOWN, as opposed to what i want which
> would be it to say '$SERVICEDESC$ is down' or something of the sort.
> should i just disable notifications for the host?
Disable this host check. Because any failed service will result in a host
check and if that host is down none of these services will be tested.
But just why you choose to make things this complex in the first place is
beyond me.
Hugo.
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