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Hello All, Im using the latest nagiosxi if that matters, but can someone give me some kind of example config of how to make all of a hosts service checks dependent on the host being up?

Currently when a host is down all my checks (active nrpe checks) for that hose show up as unable to connect to host. I don't want to bother checking the services if I can't even reach the host.. Im not sure how to configure that and the documentation leaves a little to be desired imo.

There's a decent discussion of this on http://monitoringtt.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... -host.html

So a custom event handler is the way to handle this? Sounds easy enough but it seems like this should be a configurable option from within nagios itself.

One more thing, is this a good solution if I have over 2000 hosts with 4-5+ active checks each?

Yes, I believe this is the approach you would have to take to do this. I'd also like to see it as a built-in option, but that doesn't exist yet to my knowledge. As far as the scalability, that should be fine, since you're using CGI commands, not restarting the service.

Awesome, Thanks for the help Tony!

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