host/service dependencies.

[ormsbeec]

Hello All, Im using the latest nagiosxi if that matters, but can someone give me some kind of example config of how to make all of a hosts service checks dependent on the host being up?

Currently when a host is down all my checks (active nrpe checks) for that hose show up as unable to connect to host. I don't want to bother checking the services if I can't even reach the host.. Im not sure how to configure that and the documentation leaves a little to be desired imo.

[tonyyarusso]

There's a decent discussion of this on http://monitoringtt.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... -host.html

[ormsbeec]

So a custom event handler is the way to handle this? Sounds easy enough but it seems like this should be a configurable option from within nagios itself.

[ormsbeec]

One more thing, is this a good solution if I have over 2000 hosts with 4-5+ active checks each?

[tonyyarusso]

Yes, I believe this is the approach you would have to take to do this. I'd also like to see it as a built-in option, but that doesn't exist yet to my knowledge. As far as the scalability, that should be fine, since you're using CGI commands, not restarting the service.

[ormsbeec]

Awesome, Thanks for the help Tony!

[tonyyarusso]

Let us know if you have any further questions!