(assuming nagios 3.x series) please read this: <a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/toc.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/toc.html</a> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Albert Shih <<a href="mailto:Albert.Shih@obspm.fr">Albert.Shih@obspm.fr</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi all. I would like to known what nagios with the child host when a parent is unreachable. Does he continu to check something ? For example trying to known when a child return to normal. Regards. JAS -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26/06 86 69 95 71 Heure local/Local time: Jeu 22 avr 2010 22:12:23 CEST ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>