Why not make service depend upon host?

[leoh at dcc.ufmg.br]

Hi Sirs,

I think that it's a good idea to let services checks depend on host checks.

In Nagios, hosts depends on hosts (just for notification failures) and
services checks depends on services checks (notifications and executions
failures).

If I want to tell nagios to check a service just if the host is up, I have
to define a PING service. Doing that I can depend on PING. But it's
redundant! Host checks should be enought to tell me that the host is up.

The solution is to make services checks to depend on host checks. Ex.:

#Check service B if Host B is UP
define hostservicedependency{
	host_name			Host B
	dependent_service_description	Service B
	execution_failure_criteria	w,u,c
	notification_failure_criteria	w,u,c
}


Will it be avaible in the next release? Is there any disavantage the I
have not spotted?

--
Leonardo Henrique Machado
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais



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