Service status on unreachable hosts

[Ethan Galstad]

On 27 Jan 2006 at 21:36, Horvath Tamas wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I think that status of those services which are associated with an
> unreachable host should be unknown instead of critical. It would be
> more precise.
> 
> For example, if a section of a network become unreachable, servers in
> that segment are still accessible from these segments, but
> unaccessible from the outside world. So I can't know - from outside
> Nagios box - whether their services are in OK state, or not. 
> 
> Thanks, Tamas!

This doesn't fit all situations.  Imagine that one service associated 
with the host is a DNS record check.  The name associated with the 
host will likely continue to resolve during the host outage, so it 
should remain in an OK state.  


Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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