Service notifications for a down host?

[Aidan Anderson]

Doug Tabb wrote:
>
> I’m looking for a little behavior confirmation here, please. It’s my 
> understanding that a failed service check is one way a host check is 
> initiated. If Nagios determines the host is down, further service 
> problem notifications are suppressed. However, I still get one or more 
> notifications for the initial service problems. Wouldn’t Nagios 
> suppress those initial service checks until at least one host check 
> has been made?
>
> For illustration, I have a remote site with host parent/child 
> relationships configured. If the site goes down, I get about 2 dozen 
> service notifications from various child hosts before it realizes the 
> top parent host is down and suppresses notifications for that site. I 
> then receive the one host recovery along with the 2 dozen or so 
> service recovery messages. I had hoped to not receive any service 
> notifications in this scenario. Is this expected behavior?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Doug Tabb
>
You shouldn't be seeing this behavior. The only time your should see 
this is if your services enter a hard state before the hosts. How does 
your host retry attempts compare to your service retry attempts?

Aidan


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