Service notifications when host is down

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

Quoting Ben Whaley <Benjamin.Whaley at colorado.edu>:

>  > I though of setting a 'ping' service check on the host, and making 
> all other
>  > checks dependent on it, but that seems to me to be more of a 
> workaround than
>  > a solution, and it doesn't fully solve the scheduled downtime
> problem.
> 
> Yes, we had the same idea. I am currently using some other, similar work
> 
> arounds to solve problems that Nagios doesn't have a solution for but 
> they have introduced more problems than they've fixed.
> 
> What's strange about this particular case, however, is that Nagios 
> *usually* catches it. For example, in the following sequence, the host 
> down alert was generated before the service checks, thus avoiding the 
> unnecessary notification:

The consistent problem we have seen with Nagios is that once a host goes 
down, it only ever emits a single host down alert, and does not keep paging 
that the host is down (it correctly does not keep paging that the services 
for the host are down).  Despite querying the list, an answer to this has 
never appeared.  Perhaps it is time to file a bug on this in sourceforge.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITSS/TSS/Computing Systems
ITSS/TSS/Infrastructure Operations
Stanford University
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