> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>
>> If the host and all of its parents are down, notifications will be
> suppressed.
>> If one of the hosts parents are up, notifications will be sent normally.
>> If anything else happens, then that is a bug.
>
> Not so according to the network reachability documentation. UNREACHABLE
> notifications will be sent, if turned on. It states:
>
> If you do have unreachable notifications turned on in the hosts config,
> then your only option of controlling/repressing those notifications during
> a major outage is via the dependency config. But the dependency
> documentation clearly states that if only one 'parent' of a dependent host
> is down, notifications will be suppressed:
>
> -If even just one of the notification dependencies for a host fails, Nagios
> will temporarily repress notifications for that (dependent) host.
>
> So, perhaps the solution is to simply disable UNREACHABLE notifications in
> the hosts config?
Yes. Seeing as you're one of those few who has actually read the docs, I
mistakenly thought you'd shot a glance at this already
Disabling UNREACHABLE notifications and using parent/child relationships is
the standard way of achieving what you, insofar as I understand it, want.
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