On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:19:14AM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > >Stupid question of the week: > > > >I see that Nagios 3 represents as CRITICAL services on hosts which are > >down. > > Those CRITICAL tests are actually test-results. Since sometimes host > checks fail horribly for other reasons than them actually obtaining > an answer and that answer passing some sort of threshold, Nagios will > keep running service checks for the host the same way it always has, > but notifications for the services are suppressed.
Aha. So they show up as CRIT, but if the host was already notified as DOWN, then I won't get paged for the services as well. Ok; that's not too bad... (though I haven't actually set up notification yet :-). > >Since most services are OK-WARNING-CRITICAL; ie: ascending points on a > >numeric continum which *cannot be measured if the host is down*, > >wouldn't it make more sense if those services went UNKNOWN if the host > >wasn't running? > > No. UNKNOWN is reserved for when plugins get fed nonsense arguments, > or can't, due to some really weird errors, complete the check it's > supposed to do (such as getting IO errors when trying to write to > a network socket). Well, since (to take an example), CRITICAL load means "a loadaverage over 8" (on my 8-core Opteron), and we don't *know* the load average if the machine isn't reachable to return a value... then the nrpe checker on the console in fact *is* getting an IO error when trying to, ok, read from a network socket. > Yes. Write an event-broker-module that upon a hard host-state change > alters the state of the services on that host to whatever you like. > You also need to prevent the status from changing in later service > checks, or you'd only have a very short period of time when the services > are actually in the state you pick. IOW: this is not something lots of people are clamoring for. Got it. I think if I'm going to invest a lot of work into code, I'll spend it reskinning the clunky looking cgi's instead. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
