Services are dependent on the host they run on?

[Terry Carmen]

Quoting Assaf Flatto <nagios at flatto.net>:

>> 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
>

I'm in the same boat.

This should be very simple, but I'm probably just missing something.  
The above docs show all sorts of complex dependencies, but I'm  
actually looking for something simple.

If a host can't be pinged, there is little point in attempting to  
check disk space or anything else, so I'd like to disable all the  
other checks when ping fails; however according to the link above,  
this would require creating specific dependency definitions for each  
host and all services, defining everything as a dependency of ping.

Is there some sort of rule or wild-card that would tell Nagios that  
all network based checks should be disabled if the host can't be pinged?

Thanks!

Terry


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