Re: [Nagios-devel] Services check and unreachable host status

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Re: [Nagios-devel] Services check and unreachable host status

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Gabes Jean wrote:
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] De la part de Andreas Ericsson
> Envoyé : jeudi 27 septembre 2007 14:07
> À : Nagios Developers List
> Objet : Re: [Nagios-devel] Services check and unreachable host status
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> Gabes Jean wrote:
>>> Is there a way to put service in state UNKNOWN (and do not make the
>>> check) when the host is in an UNREACHABLE state?
>>>
>>>> No there isn't, and that would be lying, basically, since the
>>>> services aren't actually working when the host serving them is
>>>> down.
>> Yes, but the contacts know that the server is down so the services
>> are down too. When I know that the server is down, I don't care about
>> services for the moment. I don't think I've got service that can be
>> up when host is unreachable. I think I'll make the change and test
>> it. This can help me to see only few errors, but real errors (so when
>> the service is down, it's not about unreachability, but the service
>> is really down).
>>
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>>> That's an option, ofcourse, but it sounds to me as if you really should
>>> be patching the GUI files to hide services that are on hosts that are
>>> down. That way you should get what you want while maintaining report
>>> correctness.
>
> Yes, but I prefer modify some C lines than PHP :)

The web-interface is written in C, so it'd be the same there.

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