Service checks on hosts which are not up 24x7

[Jan Kohnert]

Hello all,

I'm monitoring my small private net using nagios and it works well. But I have 
a (hopefully simply to answer) question:

Some of the hosts are workstations which may go down at some time due to 
energy saving reasons. I want the services, which I monitor on those hosts to 
change their status to 'unknown' instead of 'critical' if those hosts are 
down.

Something like:
if $host up:
	check services and report errors
else:
	don't check and give 'unknown' status

I'm sure this must be possible using service-dependencies but I'm not sure how 
to do this. Could somebody please give me a hint where to look in the 
documentation or how this could be managable?

If you need detailed configuration items, please let me know.

TIA!

-- 
MfG Jan

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