If service fails, check ping before sending a notification

[Fredrik Wänglund]

Is a service-check fails Nagios runs the host's check_command wich 
usually is a ping.


/FredrikW


Jacob F Larsen wrote:

>Is it possible to do this:
>If a service fails, check if we can ping the host before sending a 
>notification about every service.
>
>The reason is that one of our servers were unreachable this night, and we 
>all got a message for every service about this.
>
>I know that I can set every service to be dependant on ping, but what if 
>Nagios checks 4 services that fails before it discovers that ping has also 
>failed?
>
>
>Regards / Venlig hilsen  Jacob Friis Larsen
>IDG Danmark A/S  |  http://www.eksperten.dk
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