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Sounds good - let us know. Thanks!

I cleaned up Nagios, and still i get to see all hosts that are beneath the parent.

once again: this is what i get to see


What i want to see:


Server04 is the only parent of server02

Server2 reports this:


Nagios is not showing any Unhandled service problems which is good. But i got a feeling it will after it fails checking a couple of times.

Hmm, it's definitely the parent since it is marked as unreachable. I could have sworn unreachable weren't considered unhandled. I'm either dead wrong or its because the check was orphaned that is messing that part up and making it show unhandled. I don't use gearman where I am so unfortunately I can't test here so hopefully the Nagios folks can help you...You could write an event handler that when the host goes down to acknowledge the issue if the parent is down. That's be a fun one to write!

Good luck!

Depending on how you look at it, there is either a bug in the software or the documentation. I'm going to lean towards the former myself. In my case I simulated an environment with a simple parent/child relationship - unreachable = unahandled and even more interestingly if the child device was reachable/up (even though it should be marked as unreachable) it was no longer unhandled. I'll file a bug.

So do i understand correctly that i can't really do anything about this atm?

With the exception of tackling it using the methods BanditBBS mentioned:

BanditBBS wrote:You could write an event handler that when the host goes down to acknowledge the issue if the parent is down.

There really is nothing for you to do. As mentioned I've filed a bug so hopefully the logic fix will sneak into the next version of Core.

Ok thank you.