Re: [Nagios-users] Services are dependent on the host they run on?

2011-06-01 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Roberto Nunnari wrote: Hi Gerald. Ortner, Gerald wrote: What host/service check interval/max check attempts do you use? Maybe the host check interval is much longer than the service check interval. If the services become hard state critical before the host check does, the service

Re: [Nagios-users] Services are dependent on the host they run on?

2011-05-30 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Hi Gerald. Ortner, Gerald wrote: What host/service check interval/max check attempts do you use? Maybe the host check interval is much longer than the service check interval. If the services become hard state critical before the host check does, the service notifications will be sent, as

Re: [Nagios-users] Services are dependent on the host they run on?

2011-05-30 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Hi Benny. C. Bensend wrote: Yesterday for instance, a host went down because of a hd controller failure, and I received 22 sms.. I apologize if this has already been stated, I haven't been following this thread too closely. When this happened, was the host down *in a network sense*, or

Re: [Nagios-users] Services are dependent on the host they run on?

2011-05-27 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Hi Mark. Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote: Maybe I'm missing something but I thought that suppressing notifications for services on the same host when the host goes down is the default behavior. It's only when you have to suppress notifications from different hosts that you need host/service

Re: [Nagios-users] Services are dependent on the host they run on?

2011-05-27 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Terry Carmen wrote: Quoting Assaf Flatto nag...@flatto.net: Any hint/advice/guidance is very welcome. Thank you and best regards. Robi check out service dependencies http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/dependencies.html I'm in the same boat. This should be very simple, but

Re: [Nagios-users] Services are dependent on the host they run on?

2011-05-27 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Assaf Flatto wrote: Martin Hugo wrote: Hi Robi, I have never done it but I know you can make hosts/services children that will not report if the parent is down. Hope this puts you on the right track. Marty -Original Message- From: Roberto Nunnari

Re: [Nagios-users] Services are dependent on the host they run on?

2011-05-27 Thread Axel Rosenski
Hi, I found a solution by adding a service dependency on the nrpe daemon. This works well with a single dependency definition for standard checks I like to have on all server but you need to define additional service dependencie for every service. When you work with hostgroups you can use

Re: [Nagios-users] Services are dependent on the host they run on?

2011-05-27 Thread Ortner, Gerald
What host/service check interval/max check attempts do you use? Maybe the host check interval is much longer than the service check interval. If the services become hard state critical before the host check does, the service notifications will be sent, as Nagios isn't aware of the host problem. I

[Nagios-users] Services are dependent on the host they run on?

2011-05-26 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Hi all. Some time ago, I've installed and configured nagios to monitor our IT infrastructure. It works very well and we're happy with it. There's still one problem though: When a host goes down, nagios sends notifications not only for host down, but also for all services running on that host.

Re: [Nagios-users] Services are dependent on the host they run on?

2011-05-26 Thread Martin Hugo
Hi Robi, I have never done it but I know you can make hosts/services children that will not report if the parent is down. Hope this puts you on the right track. Marty -Original Message- From: Roberto Nunnari [mailto:roberto.nunn...@supsi.ch] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 12:47 PM To:

Re: [Nagios-users] Services are dependent on the host they run on?

2011-05-26 Thread Assaf Flatto
Martin Hugo wrote: Hi Robi, I have never done it but I know you can make hosts/services children that will not report if the parent is down. Hope this puts you on the right track. Marty -Original Message- From: Roberto Nunnari [mailto:roberto.nunn...@supsi.ch] Sent: Thursday,

Re: [Nagios-users] Services are dependent on the host they run on?

2011-05-26 Thread Terry Carmen
Quoting Assaf Flatto nag...@flatto.net: Any hint/advice/guidance is very welcome. Thank you and best regards. Robi check out service dependencies http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/dependencies.html I'm in the same boat. This should be very simple, but I'm probably just missing

Re: [Nagios-users] Services are dependent on the host they run on?

2011-05-26 Thread Frost, Mark {PBC}
Maybe I'm missing something but I thought that suppressing notifications for services on the same host when the host goes down is the default behavior. It's only when you have to suppress notifications from different hosts that you need host/service dependencies. Mark -Original