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host dependencies! ugh. I did not think so because of the parent logic and didn't even think to check but of course this was the problem. Waste of time...

Thanks for helping me with this issue!

the hosts i am concerned about, "soekris1" & "shiva2" are children of "Apple" which is UP. the logic you describe makes sense and is desirable but that is not a situation I am describing here, though the behavior of nagios seems to imply something of this nature bei...

sp_int_sw1 and soekris1-sham, soekris2-sham are UP in all of these tests

no Apple is the parent of apache1 and it is not the only host that is the direct parent of. Apple is the direct parent of apache1, soekris1, and shiva2.

OK I just re-ran this to make sure I am not missing something. I am checking host UP using a simple ping. When apple is down (change address to an unresolvable FQDN), I receive alerts correctly. Just an alert for apple When just shiva2 and soekris1 are down (change address to an IP that will not res...

soekris1/shiva2 at the end of the chain, but yes, correct.

Note: the soekris1-sham and soekris2-sham are at a different network location -- so network checks in view of dependency go from nagios server -> switch -> firewalls -> apple internet host -> firewalls at remote location (which are not running their checks as described above). define host{ use gener...

Apple was UP, yes.

The hosts that I am worried about, soekris1 and shiva2 were in a DOWN state

Thanks, here is the host soekris1. One of the parents that is not generating alerts and getting stuck at 1/3 SOFT state. The parent "apple" was online when I was not receiving alerts define host{ use generic-host host_name soekris1 alias meganet-firewall1 hostgroups Meganet address x.x.x.x...

I am not getting alerts from my "blocking outage" hosts, ie the ones that the other servers depend on and are setup as parents in nagios hosts file. When all the services and hosts are down, they register as down in the Web front end, but when I click on the hosts they are only in a SOFT s...