Services notification when host is down

[Andreas Ericsson]

Javier Castillo Alcibar wrote:
> Thx, Andreas.
> 
> But this sounds a lit a bit strange.... I think there should be an implicit relationship between host status and services status.....If a host is down, the services offered by that host, will be, at least, something like unreachable, don't you think so?
> 

That's why notifications are suppressed for those services.

> Javier.
> 
> 
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se] 
> Enviado el: miércoles, 29 de diciembre de 2004 10:29
> Para: Javier Castillo Alcibar
> CC: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Asunto: Re: [Nagios-users] Services notification when host is down
> 
> Javier Castillo Alcibar wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>> 
>>
>>How can I configure nagios for disabling automatically service checks
>>when the host is down??. 
>>
> 
> 
> You can't. When any service goes up, nagios checks if the host has gone 
> up as well. If no service ever goes up (which would be the case if 
> checks weren't performed) the host will never go up.
> 
> 
>> 
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Javier.
>>
>> 
>>
>>
> 
> 

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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