Service Dependency Templates

[Joe Rhett]

You're going the long way around a problem that Nagios has already solved.
If any service fails, Nagios schedules a host check.  By default, this is
ping.  If the host check fails, all other checks stop until the host check
succeeds again.  In short, it does what you want already.
(as long as your host checks are ping...)

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:22:01PM -0800, Chris wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I finally started getting my nagios monitoring dialed in nicely using the
> template system, having semi incomplete templates not registered and being
> used by my other templates.
> 
> I'm wondering if I can use the same system with dependencies?
> I want to make a template like this...
> 
> define servicedependency{
> 	service_description		Ping Check
> 	dependent_service_description	*
> 	execution_failure_criteria	w,u,c
> 	notification_failure_criteria	w,u,c
> 	name					SrvDep
> }
> 
> Then have each one of my hosts use the template SrvDep like this...
> 
> define servicedependency{
> 	host_name				MailSrvr
> 	dependent_host_name		MailSrvr
> 	use					SrvDep
> }
> 
> Goal being to make all services on the MailSrvr dependent on Ping and if
> Ping fails it will stop checks on all other services.
> 
> But from looking at the docs it seems like servicedependency does have the
> name/use feature for templating.
> 
> Thanks,
>          Chris S.
>          RHCE,CCNA
>         I.T.Engineer
>   http://www.sightspeed.com
> 
> 
> 
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Joe Rhett                                                      Chief Geek
JRhett at Isite.Net                                      Isite Services, Inc.


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