Service notifications for a down host?

Doug Tabb dtabb at marketforceinfo.com
Tue Nov 20 17:57:53 CET 2007



> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Aidan Anderson
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 7:36 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Service notifications for a down host?
> 
> 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
> 

That's my problem! Services go to a hard state after one try. Obviously,
that's no good. I'll change it. Thanks!

-Doug

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