Assaf Flatto wrote: > hello list > > I have an odd issue with service dependencies > > I have 360 hosts with 2400 services in my nagios , and i thought i set up an > "all encompassing" > service dependency in order to get only one alert of a host goes down . >
There is an automatic service->host dependency that suppresses notifications for all services that are on hosts in a non-UP state, so this seems like an exercise in futility to me. > define servicedependency{ > host_name * > service_description PING > dependent_host_name * > dependent_service_description * > execution_failure_criteria c,u,w > notification_failure_criteria c,u,w > inherits_parent > } > In my calculation i should be having a list of 2400 dependencies and in the > "show config- > service > dependencies " it should generate a list of 4800 lines . > This would add 360*360*(2400-$services_named_PING) dependencies. Assuming you have one PING service on each host, that's a total of 264384000 service-dependencies. *ALL* those dependencies would be circular, so this simply cannot be how you have configured Nagios. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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