Re: [Nagios-devel] Hosts and Services

[Andreas E. <ae...@op...>]

craig cook wrote:
> Okay, that makes sense.
> 
> What about this idea then... (some sort of flag for "execute this
> service test on the standard nagios retest policy for service
> failures").
> 

Nagios schedules service checks continually no matter what state the 
host is in. Host states only affect notification logic. If you knew this 
already, I'm a bit curious as to what the proposed changes would accomplish.


> define host {
> host_name      linux-server
> address        10.0.0.1
> parents        linux-server2
> hostgroups     web-servers
> }
> 
> define service {
> service              ping-linux-servers
> check_command_line   ping ...
> execute_on_failure   true
> }
> 
> define service {
> service              smtp-linux-servers
> check_command_line   <smtp command>
> execute_on_failure   false
> }
> 
> 
> define host_service {
> host_name     linux-server
> service       smtp-linux-servers
> contact_group linux-admins
> }
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Craig
> 
> On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 17:36 -0400, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> 
>>The model for hosts and services exist separately such that if one of a 
>>number of services fails on a host, the host check command is used to 
>>verify if the host is up/down before checking all the other services.
>>
>>Similarly if a host is down, parent hosts are checked to see if the path 
>>to host is down or just the target host. This is also done using the host 
>>check_command.
>>
>>So while it might look redundant from a data model perespective - it 
>>actually is quite useful.
>>
>>-sg
> 
> 
> 
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