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Hello everyone,

I was trying to find solution for my query regarding alert mechanism.



If node/host goes down or failed but obvious services installed on that host will be down, and status will reflected in monitoring console.
Thus,in alert mechanism host as well as services dependent on that host like ssh,ping etc. will generate alert for that host.

I Just wanted to generate alert for only host failed not for dependent service of that host because it is became overhead for monitoring.

so , is there any way/mechanism to do this? or is it possible to do customization like this ?


Thanks ,
Akash

Strictly speaking, Nagios should not be notifying on service checks if the host is detected as down. However, due to the scheduling of checks, it's entirely possible for a service to be detected down before the host is detected as down.

More info and some examples:
http://sites.box293.com/nagios/guides/c ... -intervals