Nagios Support Forum

Hi,

I have a situation wherein a monitored host goes into an unreachable state when its parent host has gone down and all the services goe into a critical state. This does not seem like an accurate situation because Nagios cannot reach the monitored host. It could be that the services on the host are all fine. Is there a way to make the services show unknown instead of critical in such a situation?

Kind regards...

Well, the services should also go into an unknown state, it may be possible that the parent host went down, but the services on the child host had already ran a check before nagios ran a check to the parent and returned critical. You may need to look at decreasing the amount of time between each host check (check_interval) so that nagios will state change the parent host before the child host's services run their check and find that they cannot reach their destination.

Thanks for your response. Strange that they don't, but this seems to have changed since version 4.0.5, as this seems to function as expected since we've upgraded. Please lock:)