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On 14/10/08 01:29 PM, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently monitoring many services on certain hosts via SNMP, and
> making extensive use of host groups to ease configuration for my
> several hundred hosts.
>
> On occasion, the SNMP service on a host fails. This triggers dozens
> of alarms. I would like to have each service checked via SNMP depend
> on the base SNMP service, so that when SNMP fails I only get one
> alarm. I investigated service dependencies, but they don't seem
> amenable to hostgroup-friendly configuration.
>
> If I do something like:
>
> define servicedependency {
> hostgroup_name NetSnmpServers
> service_description Snmp
> dependent_host_name NetSnmpServers
> ...
> }
>
> that obviously isn't going to work.
>
> Surely other people have encountered this before? Any suggestions?
same-host dependencies (or something similar) implemented in Nagios
v3.0. Just omit the dependent_host*_name and dependencies will only
occur within the same hosts. You can therefore apply it to hostsgroups
without having deps between hosts.
I have a patch for 2.x around if you need.
- --
Thomas
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