Re: [Nagios-devel] Service status on unreachable hosts
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:04 pm
On 27 Jan 2006 at 21:36, Horvath Tamas wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I think that status of those services which are associated with an
> unreachable host should be unknown instead of critical. It would be
> more precise.
>
> For example, if a section of a network become unreachable, servers in
> that segment are still accessible from these segments, but
> unaccessible from the outside world. So I can't know - from outside
> Nagios box - whether their services are in OK state, or not.
>
> Thanks, Tamas!
This doesn't fit all situations. Imagine that one service associated
with the host is a DNS record check. The name associated with the
host will likely continue to resolve during the host outage, so it
should remain in an OK state.
Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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> Hi!
>
> I think that status of those services which are associated with an
> unreachable host should be unknown instead of critical. It would be
> more precise.
>
> For example, if a section of a network become unreachable, servers in
> that segment are still accessible from these segments, but
> unaccessible from the outside world. So I can't know - from outside
> Nagios box - whether their services are in OK state, or not.
>
> Thanks, Tamas!
This doesn't fit all situations. Imagine that one service associated
with the host is a DNS record check. The name associated with the
host will likely continue to resolve during the host outage, so it
should remain in an OK state.
Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.nagios.org
This post was automatically imported from historical nagios-devel mailing list archives
Original poster: [email protected]