service dependencies on a single host?

[Michael W. Lucas]

Hi,

I'm currently monitoring many services on certain hosts via SNMP, and
making extensive use of host groups to ease configuration for my
several hundred hosts.

On occasion, the SNMP service on a host fails.  This triggers dozens
of alarms.  I would like to have each service checked via SNMP depend
on the base SNMP service, so that when SNMP fails I only get one
alarm.  I investigated service dependencies, but they don't seem
amenable to hostgroup-friendly configuration.

If I do something like:

define servicedependency {
	hostgroup_name		NetSnmpServers
	service_description	Snmp
	dependent_host_name	NetSnmpServers
	...
}

that obviously isn't going to work.

Surely other people have encountered this before?  Any suggestions?

Thanks,
==ml


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Michael W. Lucas 	mwlucas at BlackHelicopters.org, mwlucas at FreeBSD.org
		http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/
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  the pessimists." -- Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher

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