dont check service when host down

[Hari Sekhon]

Giles Coochey wrote:
> I thought about this when writing my post on this particular thread, but
> then thought - how do I find out that the host has recovered from its
> downtime?
>   
Is this not the defined point of host checks?

When the host check detects that the host is up again, then service 
checks can resume.

> I suspect that it is through service checks.
>   
host checks check if the host is up
service checks check if a specific service is up
> If anything perhaps a servicedown_check_frequency parameter for service
> templates would be a better option?
>   
that's actually not a bad idea, but I can't understand why we would want 
to check on a service that
must by definition be down if the host it sits on is down?

How can a service be up if the computer is switched off or unplugged 
from the network? (or completely firewalled to not respond or whatever)

The service check would have to fail in that case, I don't see how any 
active service check could succeed if a host does not respond.

There are very few and rares circumstances that I can think of like a 
service being attached to a hostname but not
actually being on that host, I have had that situation myself, but 
didn't support it as a good reason for this
because actually the service should just be moved to the host it is on 
or otherwise separated from that host that
it is not really on.

-h


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