MiikaT wrote: > Quoting Andreas Ericsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> If you have "u" in your host_notification_options it will tell you when >> hosts are UNREACHABLE (as in, the parent host is down as well as the >> host in question). Using dependencies for this sort of thing is just >> wrong. Make your parent setup work instead. > > In hosts setup for notification_options I use d,u,r, and as I said the > if hosts are down, the setup is fine. But if let's say ping reaches critical, > I will get alert for all devices behind the parent.
Because you have 'u' (notify when unreachable) in your host_notification_options. > Do you suggest not using > dependencies.cfg at all, and should services not get alerted, if upper > level/parent host service is is critical? > I suggest not using dependencies at all, but instead using the "parents" directive and removing 'u' from your host_notification_options. I also suggest reading the documentation regarding parents, host_notification_options and notification logic. Dependencies can be a fine thing for services. It's almost always the wrong thing to use for hosts. -- Andreas Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
