Service Dependency Not Working

[Marty]

I have been using nagios for several years with wonderful success.  (Thank 
you to all who have contributed.)

I have a problem with the service dependency not working as I expect.  We 
are using Nagios v2.9 running on linux (CentOS).

I am using NRPE to check several services such as load, users, procs, etc.
I plan to make all NRPE dependent services begin with a double underscore
(__) and use a regular expression in the service dependency to have
the functioning of the NRPE daemon be the master service upon which
all other NRPR services depend.  (Such as below.)

----------------------------------------------------------------------
define servicedependency{
         dependent_host_name             HOSTNAME
         dependent_service_description   __*
         host_name                       HOSTNAME
         service_description             NRPE Daemon
         execution_failure_criteria      n
         notification_failure_criteria   w,c,u,p
}
----------------------------------------------------------------------

To confirm running of NRPE, I am using check_dummy

   command[check_dummy]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_dummy 0


I have been running tests with no success.  I received notifications of 
the dependendent services even if I shutdown NRPE on the target host.

I have tried multiple iterations of the configuration.  I even simplified 
the test by reconfiguring the service dependency stanza to be:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
define servicedependency{
         dependent_host_name             test2
         dependent_service_description   __Total Processes
         host_name                       test2
         service_description             NRPE Daemon
         execution_failure_criteria      n
         notification_failure_criteria   w,c,u,p
}
----------------------------------------------------------------------

I run the simplified test by setting the critical value for the number of 
processes very low and configure check_dummy to return CRITICAL.  Nagios 
sends out two notifications when I schedule a check of services on host 
"test2".

I have used service dependencies in the past on older versions of Nagios 
(v1.x).  Is there something I am overlooking?

Many thanks for any help I can get.


marty :-)

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