disable service checks when a host goes down

[Andreas Ericsson]

Marc Powell wrote:
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
>>admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Matt Rae
>>Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 6:32 PM
>>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>Subject: [Nagios-users] disable service checks when a host goes down
>>
>>I'm trying to disable service notifications when a host goes down.
> 
> Does
> 
>>this have to do with dependencies or notification optoins? Or
> 
> something
> 
>>else?
> 
> 
> Nagios will automagically do this if you have a valid host check_command
> specified that returns CRITICAL if the host is down.
> 
> 
>>I asked in #nagios and apparently this should be what nagios does by
>>default. The suggestion was to check check-host-alive.. but I'm using
>>the supplied check-host-alive.
> 
> 
> Can you run the host check_command, exactly as it's defined, as the
> nagios user and receive a CRITICAL state ('echo $?' should return '2'
> after running the command) when the host is down?
> 

It doesn't matter if it returns 1 or 2. Both are considered DOWN.

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