service dependency on host?

[Marc Powell]

On Sep 11, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Charlie Reddington wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have nagios up and working but I want to tweak it some so I'm not
> getting buried under sms messages.
>

> My real question comes down to dependencies. As much as I love getting
> 400 messages if something 'upstream' goes down like a switch, I
> generally want to try to get alerts only for hosts down and alerts for
> the first point of failure.
>
> So assuming one of my networks look like this:
>
>  Router --> Switch -> serv01, serv02, serv03
>
> Lets say the switch goes down. Which makes the servers all
> unreachable, which fails out all other servers. I don't want to have
> any notifications really for anything below the switch.

Sounds like you don't want dependencies, you want parents.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/networkreachability.html

--
Marc


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