Service and Host dependencies

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Nelson [mailto:rob at capband.net]
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 9:29 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Service and Host dependencies
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> My goal is to try and get Nagios to stop testing and sending
notifications
> for devices when a parent device is down or unreachable. So far, I've
been
> successful in getting "Host UNREACHABLE" notifications instead of
"Host
> DOWN", when the parent dies, but the checks are still run.
> 
> For simplicity's sake, I'd like to know what code I should use for
> sumter.57.SM4 and sumter.24.601. The device sumter.57.SM4 is a
Motorola
> Canopy device receiving signal from upstream. The device sumter.24.601
is
> a
> wireless access point connected to the ethernet port of the Canopy, so
if
> the canopy device disconnects, the WAP is beyond our reach.

[snip]

> 
> As you can see, I use the command "parents  sumter.57.SM4" in the host
> definition of sumter.24.601 to get the "Host UNREACHABLE" messages.
Now,
> what can I do to stop the host and service checks from running?

>From my reading of the documentation, Nagios will continue to check the
status of all hosts and services regardless of the status of the
parents. You can, however, configure it to not notify you of hosts that
are unreachable by removing the 'u' from the notification_options.

--
Marc



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