Host parenting and notification supression...

Livio Zanol Puppim livio.zanol.puppim at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 12:04:16 CET 2007


I've had a problem with this when I've included host_dependency in my
configurations files. As I remove all host dependencies, the parent
and notifications supressions have worked perfectly...

cheers,

Lívio Zanol Puppim

2007/12/17, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com>:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Eric F Crist
> > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 1:24 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Host parenting and notification supression...
> >
> > Hello folks!
> >
> > We've made sure to set up the host parenting so that it correctly
> > reflects our network layout.  I was under the impression that, should
> > a link fail, nagios would automatically assume the hosts behind it
> > were unreachable and, thus, supress the extra (obvious?)
> notifications.
>
> Yes, that's how it works. The documentation is here --
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/networkreachability.html
>
> What you may be getting caught by is that nagios changes the status from
> Down to Unreachable for those hosts. If your notification_options
> includes the (u)nreachable flag, you'll still receive notifications
> about those hosts.
>
> --
> Marc
>
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