Suggestion on Parent / Child hosts in relation to Services

[lmiltchev]

define service {
host_name cvt3247532
service_description TCP Port 25000
use xiwizard_tcp_service
check_command check_xi_service_tcp!-p 25000
max_check_attempts 50
check_interval 2
retry_interval 1
check_period xi_timeperiod_24x7
notification_interval 60
notification_period xi_timeperiod_24x7
notifications_enabled 1
contacts null
contact_groups null
_xiwizard tcpudpport
register 1
}

Are you sure that you want to run the check 50 times, after it goes to non-OK state? It's going to take awfully long time before the service goes to hard state...

What exactly is the problem that you are having at the moment? Is "Current Check" value incrementing every minute under the "Service Status Detail" page ("Overview" tab)?

For example:

Current Check: 10 of 50

[JakeHatMacys]

The goal is for the Host to go into a hard state and stop the service check. I was under the impression that once the host check hits a hard state all the services on the host would stop. I just want to see that visually aka never hit 50.

What's happening is our host goes 5/5 and the Service keeps incrementing, then for some reason a few minutes later the host resets to 1/5 without going green (device is unplugged the whole time) and the service then alerts when it hits 50.

So am I correct in assuming the host hard state should stop the service checks on the host? I guess that's square 1 to understand.

[lmiltchev]

So am I correct in assuming the host hard state should stop the service checks on the host? I guess that's square 1 to understand.

No, you are not correct. Nagios will continue running the service checks even if the host is down. This is by design. For example, you may have a host that is UP, but the host check fails, because the ping/icmp checks have been disabled on the host. You would still want to check the state of the services on this host even though nagios "thinks" the host is down...