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Dirk De Coninck wrote:
> All,
>
> I am using Nagios 2.2 to monitor about 70 windows servers. Besides the
> usual ping to check the uptime of the host I am using the Nagios NRPE_NT
> host agent to check the drive space utilization and the status of some
> of the critical services (Mcafee, iSCSI, Snapdrive, MS Cluster service...).
>
> When the NRPE agent fails, I get off course several notifications for
> all the checks that rely on the agent. I wanted to add dependencies and
> make those services dependent on the NRPE status, but I have the
> following problem:
> All the windows servers are part of a hostgroup. When I defined the
> service definition for the drive space monitoring and the services, I
> used the hostgroup instead of a definition for every host separate.
> For every service dependency definitions, one has to define the
> dependent_host_name/, the /dependent_service_description/, the
> /host_name/ and /the service_description. If I have to do this then it
> will require me to create about 300 dependency definitions!
>
> Is it possible to somehow make the following dependency definition work:
>
> define servicedependency{
> hostgroup_name windows-servers
> service_description NRPE_NT
> dependent_service_description Drive_C
> }
>
>
> Could we have the dependency check assume that when the
> dependent_host_name is missing we want it to refer to the same host? Or
> could it be possible to define $HOSTADDRESS$
> as the
> dependent_host_name?
>
> How about the possibility to define a service dependency in the actual
> service definition instead of having to do this in a separate config
> file (same for host dependency definitions)?
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer with this.
>
> Kind regards,
> Dirk.

The docs show some useful tricks for service dependency definitions...

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/ ... dependency

Try this...

define servicedependency{
hostgroup_name windows-servers
service_description NRPE_NT
dependent_hostgroup_name windows-servers
dependent_service_description Drive_C
}



Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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