Services on down hosts

[Jay R. Ashworth]

Stupid question of the week: 

I see that Nagios 3 represents as CRITICAL services on hosts which are
down.

Since most services are OK-WARNING-CRITICAL; ie: ascending points on a
numeric continum which *cannot be measured if the host is down*,
wouldn't it make more sense if those services went UNKNOWN if the host
wasn't running?

Ok, I guess I can see both approaches to that as being sensible in some
circumstances; is there a knob to change that behaviour for a service,
or something less obvious than a knob?

Cheers,
-- jra
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