Service dependencies not working as I would think?

[C. Bensend]

Hey folks,

   So, after an unintentional barrage of alerts, I started playing
around with service dependencies.  I do an awful lot of checks using
check_by_ssh, so I'd like to set up dependencies for other services
that depend on ssh.  Simple, I would think.

In my dependencies.cfg (this is Nagios 1.2):

# Servicedependency definition
define servicedependency{
        host_name                       neutron
        service_description             ssh
        dependent_host_name             neutron
        dependent_service_description   postgresql
        execution_failure_criteria      w,u,c ; These are the criteria
                                              ; for which check execution
                                              ; will be supressed
        notification_failure_criteria   w,u,c ; These are the criteria
                                              ; for which notifications
                                              ; will be supressed
        }

   For the above host (neutron), I use check_by_ssh to execute
check_pgsql locally.  So, with the above config, I would think that
if ssh goes away, the postgresql service will not be tested and will
not alert.

   To test, I killed ssh on neutron, and watched what happened -
and to my dismay, Nagios alerted on both ssh and postgresql.  :(
The "view config" in the web interface seems to show the dependency
set up correctly - what the heck am I missing?

Thanks!

Benny


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