Checking Clients Online before other checks

[Daniel Laird]

All,

I am new to nagios and am trying something I suspect has been done before - but I am struggling and was wondering if you can help?

I have a server that is online 24x7
I haev a group of machines (upto 50) that are on and offline (desktop machines)

I want to have the server check if a client is online (ping will do for now)
If the ping is successful I want to run a number of checks (apt, disks, load etc)
If the ping is unsuccessful I don't want any errors at all - as this is perfectly possible.

I have created a HostGroup with all my desktop machines
I have also created a service group of the checks I want to run once a host is determined as being there.
I know I can make the service group dependent on the ping test.

Can anyone give me any hints as to what I have to do next and how I make sure that if a ping fails I dont get an error at all?

Cheers
Dan
 		 	   		  
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