Dependencies and event handlers

[mark]

Hi All,

I'm new to Nagios. There... that's said.

Because I'm new, i've got questions... (Again stating the obvious ;-)

After printing out the complete manual and reading twice and some
parts more than that, I feel I pretty much understand most of
Nagios. Or at least how it works.

After fiddling with it as well ofcourse.

My questions:

1.) Are services that are associated with a host automagicly
dependent on that host? So that if the host goes down, you only get
notifications for that host? And not all the services on it? I could
try ofcourse, but my users won't be happy ;-)

If not, how do I make multiple serivices dependent on one or more
host? Do I really need to specify that for each single service/host?

2.) Is there an easier way to run event-handlers on remote hosts? Or
better put, the even-handler is ofcourse run on the nagios machine
itself but can the script/program that get's called by the
even-handler for instance restart services on remote hosts?

Those are my biggest ??? above my head right now.

Nagios is sweet b.t.w. I'm running it with a AS400Plugin, sendpage
(For sending sms notifications independent of my network
(FABULOUS!)), and NRPE for running plugins on different hosts. Tried
NSCA, but think it is too much hassle for just running plugins. NRPE
is way easier and needs less programs on the host machines. Thanks!

All of this runs on Debian.

Mark


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