Children "unreachable" on soft down?

[Israel Brewster]

Does nagios (3.0.3) mark a child host as unreachable when its parent  
enters a soft down state? I am finding myself getting repeated down  
messages for a host (which is, in fact, down), even though I have  
notifications set to only send a single message. Looking at the logs,  
it would appear that what is happening is that the host is flipping  
between "down" (which notifies me) and "unreachable" (which does not).  
The parent host, however, never enters a hard down state. Looking at  
the logs, what I see is that one ICMP check fails, throwing the host  
into a soft down state, but the next one works just fine, bringing it  
back to an up state.

The logic works fine for the parent host- since it never hits a hard  
down state, it doesn't alert, and everyone is happy. But apparently  
with the child host every time this happens, it switches from critical  
to unreachable and back again, triggering a notification. Is there any  
way to keep this from happening? Thanks.

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Israel Brewster
Computer Support Technician II
Frontier Flying Service Inc.
5245 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709
(907) 450-7250 x293
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