How to surpess notifications if ping fails.

[Jon Angliss]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:57:19 -0700, Jeremiah Jester
<jeremiahjester at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have a working nagios2 installation under Ubuntu.  I would like to
>configure nagios so that when a host cannot be ping'd by nagios all other
>services related to this server/s are stopped so I don't get a slew of
>notifications for that host.
>
>I'm thinking i want servicedepency directive in my dependecies.cfg file?
>Does this sound about right?
>
>
>define servicedependency{
>    hostgroup_name                       servers
>    service_description             ping
>    dependent_hostgroup_name        servers
>    dependent_service_description   *
>    execution_failure_criteria      w,c
>    notification_failure_criteria   w,u,c
>}

Yes, that's one way to do it, though over-complicating it.  The other
is to actually have ping (usually defined as check-host-alive) as the
host check, when the host is unreachable, the notifications for the
services will not be sent. 

Nagios3 would also be a good idea for an upgrade (something I believe
ubuntu has as a package already) as the host checks are much better in
v3.
-- 
Jonathan Angliss
<jon at netdork.net>


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