Host dependencies not being picked up...

[Max Hetrick]

Marc Powell wrote:

> Yes, they are very similar... hostdependencies give you more  
> flexibility about when it's valid and under what conditions though.  
> Like you, I'm hard-pressed to come up with an example of when it's  
> actually interesting... I guess the best example I can think of based  
> on my understanding is if you have your nagios server on a different  
> LAN than two other servers. Server B is dependent on Server A for  
> functioning. If ServerA and ServerB are unreachable from nagios, that  
> may not be a big deal; they could still be providing services locally  
> just fine. If ServerA is down though, that's a different matter.  
> *shrug* I could be completely off base on that scenario ;) I don't use  
> dependencies <G>

Ahh, yeah I guess that makes sense. I don't use them either, except for 
a few service dependencies. We have an i5 AS400 here where the services 
that we're checking are dependent on a login service. If you can't 
login, you can't check the services, but that doesn't mean that the 
other services are down.

This is the only time I've ever needed to use host/service dependencies. 
I guess there are specific applications for the need of them. :)

Regards,
Max

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