Kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it? The normal process is, even if a host is up, the services it provides could be dead in the water. I don't think you really want this, but instead, if you want to give the service check more time to determine if a problem is REALLY a problem, increase the max_check_attempts of the service in question, giving Nagios more time to check the service to really change it's state to a HARD state. Read up on different states and how they work at:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/statetypes.html Taylor On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Jay Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings. > > I've noticed something odd within Nagios. Someone will restart a server > here, and as a result a service check will report an error. As a > result, we can (depending on how long the box takes to get up) get an > alert for every service on the box when it goes down. > > Is there a way to build in a dependency so that if a service goes down, > it checks to see if the host itself is up before it sends an alert? > > -- > Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ > Living Legend / Systems Exorcist > Today's Excuse: Just type 'mv * /dev/null' > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ 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
