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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="sans serif"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Hi again –<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="sans serif"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>There seems to me to be a ”bug” in nagios
v1.x (and possibly in v2.x) –<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="sans serif"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>We run passive checks of hundreds of hosts in several dmz’s<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="sans serif"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="sans serif"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>It would be a lot better for nagios to – by default
– let all services depend upon a successful check of nrpe.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="sans serif"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>If checking nrpe is ok – do the rest of the
checks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="sans serif"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Otherwise don’t – and issue a message
indicating nrpe-check failed.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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2286 3765</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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