<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Exchange Server">  <style></style> </head> <body> <font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <div>I’ve started playing with making a bunch of dependencies and at first it appeared to be working, right now I’ve got a pretty basic test setup. I’ve added one service to be dependent on the other one, but it seems that the freshness might be mucking with it. Two services below:</div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">define service {</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> service_description base_log_checks</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <u>servicegroups</u> base_service_group</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> hostgroup_name base_windows_2003</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> use generic-passive-service</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> check_freshness 1</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> freshness_threshold 3600 </span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> check_command service_is_</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">}</span></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">define service {</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> service_description nagios_cron</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> servicegroups base_service_group</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> hostgroup_name base_windows_2003</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> use generic-passive-service</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> check_freshness 1</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> freshness_threshold 3000 </span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> check_command service_is_stale </span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">}</span></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">define <u>servicedependency</u> {</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> service_description nagios_cron</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> dependent_service_description base_log_checks</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> execution_failure_criteria w,u,c</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> notification_failure_criteria w,u,c</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> inherits_parent 1</span></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">}</span></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></div> <div>What appears to happen is that I kill nsclient so nagios_cron starts reporting “stale” at 3000 seconds, and the same for base_log_checks shortly after. Then about every hour I get more “stale” soft alerts, and then after the third try it goes to a HARD alert and I still get a ticket, though I’m not sure why it’s even checking if execution should be disable when nagios_cron is in a warning state. But not only does the active checks (service_is_stale) get executed but I’m also still getting notifications sent after 3 attempts, so it doesn’t really appear to be doing anything. Unfortunately right now these servers are so busy it’s hard to put them in debug mode. Have I missed something obvious with these?</div> <div><br> Dan</div> <div><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></div> </span></font> </body> </html>