Disabling service checks when host is down

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arnab.roy
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Disabling service checks when host is down

Post by arnab.roy »

Hi All,

I would like nagios to stop polling and running service checks against a host which is down, as it is pointless and a waste of resources. Can you suggest how I might be able to achieve this.

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Arnab
mguthrie
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Re: Disabling service checks when host is down

Post by mguthrie »

You'd probably have to define a custom event handler to do this, and send a core command directly to the nagios.cmd pipe.
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagi ... dlers.html

The accepted command pipe names and usage guidelines can be found here.
http://old.nagios.org/developerinfo/ext ... ndlist.php
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