Service alerts for a host that is down

[Anders Holm]

Justin,

why not alert *all* groups that have a service on that host, plus the sysadmin 
team when the _box_ goes down?

I mean, if the box goes down, then so does the services, so it might be the 
easies way just to alert everyone then that the *box* is down.

If they then don't understand that it means their service is down as well, then 
at least you've done what you can.. ;)

//Anders//

Justin Fitzhugh wrote:
> The reason this is needed is that I will have different contact groups
> associated with a service on a host than the actual host itself.  For
> example, if the application group is responsible for an app, but the UNIX
> team is responsible for the machine - The app team wants to know their app
> went down, but they want to know it went down because the server is down
> (like dependencies) and of course the UNIX team wants to know the server is
> down.  Without code modifications, I don't know if this is possible, but I
> thought I would ask :)
> 
> -Justin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thiago Conde Figueiró [mailto:thiago at ntime.com.br] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:01 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Service alerts for a host that is down
> 
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:12:15 -0700
> Justin Fitzhugh <jfitzhugh at macromedia.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have a requirement where I need the service alerts to be sent out
>>(hopefully as an unreachable alert) for a host even when that host is
>>down. As I understand it, no service alerts will be sent for a host
>>that is deemed to be down.  Is this possible?
> 
> 
> 	Do you really need this?  If you send out an alert for host isn't
> that
> enough?  Cause if the host is down all services on it are down as well.
> 
> 	Of course you can always edit the source code and change it.
> There's
> no other way to do it, at least that I know of.  If I'm wrong, someone
> please correct me.
> 
> Regards,
> 

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