From: Litwin, M. <ml...@st...> - 2010-07-29 04:33:56
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No responses. Was it because it looked overcomplicated, too long, just something? Spelling cortical provided by iPhone. On Jul 25, 2010, at 7:45 PM, "Litwin, Matthew" <ml...@st...> wrote: > Hi, > > Here is hopefully a more clear explanation of the problem I posted last night. > > I have configured dependancies to suppress notifications when the master dependency is not OK or WARNING and while I am finding they work in suppressing command execution, notification suppression doesn't seem to be happening as the alerts keep coming for them. > > This is an example of the problem: > > Setup: > Apache_Webhits service depends on Apache_Status service being OK or WARNING for both execution and notification > > Apparent order of events: > 1. Apache_Webhits returned UNKNOWN because apache was probably down > 2. Apache_Status soon goes CRITICAL because it definitely is down alright > 3. Nagios stops further execution of Apache_Webhits > 4. In the GUI I turn off notifications for Apache_Status for that server until the problem is fixed. > > Problem: Apache_Webhits continues to send out notifications that it is CRITICAL though I would have expected the behavior to suppress further notification, but it clearly is just sending notifications as usual. Is that expected behavior? Based on my understanding I would thing further notifications would cease in this case. > > My configs: > > One this that I did that was unusual mas making a service dependency template to try to streamline my services.cfg so I didn't need to use a dependencies.cfg. It seemed to work just fine but I am mentioning it because it doesn't seem to be explicitly documented. Here is the template: > > define servicedependency { > name generic-dependency > execution_failure_criteria c,u,p > notification_failure_criteria c,u,p > inherits_parent 1 > register 0 > } > > and here is the example described above: > > # Apache_Webhits > define service{ > use standard-app-service > hostgroup_name Apache > service_description Apache_Webhits > servicegroups Apache_Webhits > check_command check_webhits_nrpe > } > define servicedependency { > use generic-dependency > hostgroup_name Apache > dependent_service_description Apache_Webhits > service_description Apache_Status > } > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the > Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share > of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;226879339;13503038;l? > http://clk.atdmt.com/CRS/go/247765532/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nag...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null |