Service Dependencies

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Christopher N. Carroll wrote:

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> Hey guys,
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> I'm trying to implement some dependencies to wrap up my Nagios
> configs. I do a majority of my checks using check_by_ssh. I monitor
> disk, processes, load etc via check_by_ssh. Currently, if a machine
> goes down (we have lots of DHCP problems, long story) I'm getting
> email from Nagios with critical messages about every service on that
> particular host. The reason this happens is because our DNS entries
> get messed up and my nagios user ends up ssh'ing to the wrong ip.
>
> I read the documentation on service dependencies and I'm just not
> getting it. I was curious if anyone can lend me a helping hand.
>

Is DNS stable or do you have DNS being updated by DHCP?
That could be a pain if dhcp is unstable.

Are the servers you are checking based on dhcp clients?


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-sg


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