Service/Host dependency, plus Timeout question...

[Emmett Hogan]

Hi Folks,

I *know* this is in the documentation somewhere, but I cannot seem to 
find it anywhere...so please forgive me. :-)

I have two questions regarding "Service Check Timeouts"....

1) All my timeouts come back as CRITICAL and result in immediate pages, 
we occasionally have systems which are pretty loaded and the NAGIOS 
checks timeout.  We'd like those to come through as WARNINGS (so we 
don't get pages).  We are checking everything via "check_by_ssh".

2) I was under the impression that if a host was down, that SERVICE 
errors were quenched....but that doesn't seem to be the case here.  If 
we take a service down, then suddenly we get inundated with SERVICE 
"CRITICAL" pages.  Am I assuming an incorrect dependency between 
services and hosts?

Again, I am sorry for asking such basic questions....but it's Monday, 
and we had an extended downtime this weekend...so I am beat.

(Please, have pity on me!) :-)

-Emmett

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