Nagios indicating hosts up even when all services are down

[Stephen Patterson]

One of my nagios monitored hosts died recently, with all the services
indicated as critical. However, even while the host was powered down
(and I had it in pieces on my desk for 2 hours), the host status was
still being indicated as up. Status up, status information host assumed
to be up.

I'm using this host template
define host{
        name                            default
        notifications_enabled           1
        event_handler_enabled           1
        flap_detection_enabled          0
        process_perf_data               1
        retain_status_information       1
        retain_nonstatus_information    1
        max_check_attempts              20
        notification_interval           60
        notification_period             24x7
        notification_options            d,u,r
        register                        0
        }

with each host configured like this
define host {
        host_name       blade2
        use             default
        alias           Blade2 PDC
        parents         CNE-12-CS1,CNE-12-CS2,CNE-12-CS3
        address         192.168.41.17
}

Does anyone have any suggestions, or is there more information which
would be useful.

CJ Garlands IT Dept.
Stephen Patterson


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