Defining a service dependency for large number of services

[Alex Griffin]

Personally, I would just define a new group with all the same services 
except that master service in it. You would have two nearly identical 
groups then; I'm not sure if that would be a problem for you.

Alex Griffin
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Tech Team
agriffin at nagios.com

On 2012-11-28 16:40, Tech Support wrote:
> Thank you. That’s extremely helpful information. I have one problem though.
> Because the master service that the service group depends on is also part of
> the service group, I'm getting (an expected) error about the circular
> dependency. Is there an easy way around that?
> Thanks;
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mathieu Gagné [mailto:mgagne at iweb.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 3:33 PM
> To: Nagios Users List
> Cc: Tech Support
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Defining a service dependency for large number
> of services
>
> Hi,
>
> On 12-11-27 2:30 PM, Tech Support wrote:
>>
>>       I need to define service dependencies for some services. Pretty
>> straightforward stuff, do not check service B unless service A is
>> running also. For example, I have 100 different service checks that
>> all depend on service A. So my question is this. Is there an easy way
>> to define a dependency for a large number of services? Any insight at
>> all would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks;
>>
>
> You can use this trick:
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objecttricks.html#same_host_dependenc
> y_with_servicegroups
>
> I use it to massively add service dependencies for all NRPE based service
> checks on the NRPE service running on the same host as the NRPE based
> service checks.
>
> --
> Mathieu
>
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