I need service notifications while host is down

[Andreas Ericsson]

Kirk Hoganson wrote:
> As per documentation:
> "Typically this is done by pinging the host and seeing if any response 
> is received. If the host check commmand returns a non-OK state, Nagios 
> assumes that there is a problem with the host. In this situation Nagios 
> will "silence" all potential alerts for services running on the host and 
> just notify the appropriate contacts that the host is down or unreachable."
> 
> I need to receive notifications of service problems even if the host is 
> considered down. I specifically need it to run the event handlers for 
> those services despite the host being down. Is there anyway I can change 
> this default behavior, and at the very least get nagios to run the event 
> handlers for the affected services?
> 

Use a proper host check command that only returns DOWN when the host 
really is DOWN.

Or you can use a host check command that always returns OK. It will 
break a lot of the logic, but will get you what you want.

> Thanks...
> 
> 
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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