Service Clusters - how to suppress individual chec ks

[Parkinson, Alex]

Hi,

You could try using the service dependency functionality.

Both the "execution_failure_critetia" and the
"notification_failure_criteria" have an option of "o = fail on an OK state".
This means the service check of the dependent service or notifications for
the dependent service are not carried out if the service being depended on
is OK.

This could allow you to ignore the two 'failed' services until the primary
service fails. I don't whether you would want to stop the services checks
until the primary service fails or just stop notifications.

Hope this is useful!

Regards,
 
Alex Parkinson
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 -----Original Message-----
From: Mark.Law at thomson.com [mailto:Mark.Law at thomson.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 6:55 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Service Clusters - how to suppress individual checks

I have a true service cluster of 3 machines.  At any given moment, only
1 service is running.  I have built a cluster monitor, and it works
great.  The problem is that for the cluster monitor to work, all 3
individual services (portmapper) need to be monitored.  At any time, 2
of these are "critical", but that is OK.  

I'd like to be able to suppress the *display* of the individual services
and still allow the cluster monitor to function.  A feeble attempt to
insert a "register 0" for the individual service caused the cluster
monitor to report incorrectly.

Is there a way to NOT display a service check on the GUI, but still have
the check performed?



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