Can Nagios force status of Host?

[Larry Crowder]

I have a situation where a service has problems, (PING drops packets or server IP address is actually changed) at which time Nagios correctly sets the Service status to "Critical".  It does not however, set the Host status to 'HOST DOWN".  When the  server comes back up again, Nagios sets the Service status to "OK" but Host status is not affected.

Q:  Shouldn't Nagios set the Host status to "HOST DOWN" when the services totally fail and are set to a "CRITICAL" status?  If not, any ideas on how I can force it?   I have looked at the documentation (and will continue to do so).    This is significant to us because we want to correctly alert co-workers about up and down of hosts.

Thanks

Larry 


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