dependencies on nrpe in nagios

[Andreas Ericsson]

oystein.bleie at aftenposten.no wrote:
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> Hi again -
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> There seems to me to be a "bug" in nagios v1.x (and possibly in v2.x) -
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> We run passive checks of hundreds of hosts in several dmz's
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> If for some reason nagios loses contact with a server - network error f.x. - we get a huge amount of CRITICAL-messages from nagios. One for each service defined actually on the host in question.
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You should only get 1 notification, namely a "host down".

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> It would be a lot better for nagios to - by default - let all services depend upon a successful check of nrpe.
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> If checking nrpe is ok - do the rest of the checks
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> Otherwise don't - and issue a message indicating nrpe-check failed.
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Passive checks don't use NRPE.

Anyways, read the docs for service-dependencies.

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