Services are dependent on the host they run on?

[Assaf Flatto]

Martin Hugo wrote:
> Hi Robi,
>
> I have never done it but I know you can make hosts/services children that will not report if the parent is down.
>
> Hope this puts you on the right track.
>
> Marty
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roberto Nunnari [mailto:roberto.nunnari at supsi.ch] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 12:47 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Services are dependent on the host they run on?
>
> Hi all.
>
> Some time ago, I've installed and configured nagios to monitor our IT 
> infrastructure.
>
> It works very well and we're happy with it.
>
> There's still one problem though:
> When a host goes down, nagios sends notifications not only for host 
> down, but also for all services running on that host. When a host goes 
> down, I would like nagios to only send notifications about the host 
> down, and not for all the services running on that host.
>
> How can I achive that?
> May it be a configuration error from my side? I thought that to nagios, 
> services would be dependent from the host running them..
>
> Any hint/advice/guidance is very welcome.
>
> Thank you and best regards.
>
> Robi
>   
check out service dependencies

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



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