> -----Original Message----- > From: Ton Voon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:23 AM > To: Marc Powell > Cc: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down > > > On 18 Sep 2007, at 15:08, Marc Powell wrote: > > >> I'm using nagios to check a lot of host and service. When a host is > > coming > >> down, nagios continue to check the service attached to this host. > >> It's > >> consume a lot of performance, it's trivial to know that when a > >> host is > >> down, we dont get a response from the service associate... > >> > >> how can I fix that ? please > > > > Nagios does what you're asking for by default if you have a host > > check_command that correctly determines the status of the host. > > > > Check the first two paragraphs of > > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/networkreachability.html. > > Marc, that's not strictly what Olivier is asking for. Nagios will > silence alarms if the host is down, but will continue checking the > service, regardless of the state of the host.
True true, I misread. As you indicated, service dependencies are probably his best bet to actually stop most of the service checks on a host. He'd need to leave at least one active to be depended upon and to let nagios know when the host has recovered. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
