Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-20 Thread Hari Sekhon
You should send email or at least CC to the Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net so that everyone else can read your email posting. I think that we have discussed the issue enough and it is not a huge problem. After max check attempts which is configurable, the scheduled checking of services will

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-19 Thread Hari Sekhon
Marc Powell wrote: > If this is the only service on the host a pending->OK transition gives > the host a 'host assumed to be up' designation. The host isn't actually > checked. Given the limited information I'd have to say that the service > did flap at some point _or_ you have aggressive host chec

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-19 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:13 AM > To: Marc Powell > Cc: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down > > Marc Powell wrote: &g

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-19 Thread Hari Sekhon
Marc Powell wrote: > Hosts are only checked when a service > on that host changes state. Service goes critical, host is checked. > Service recovers, host is checked. At no time in between is the host > checked. Oh, ok, this seems a little contrary to logic but perhaps I just think in a strange wa

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-19 Thread Hari Sekhon
Marc Powell wrote: > check returns non-OK, the service is immediately put into a hard state > and no further retries are attempted. Nagios would then fall back to the > normal_check_interval for the service check. Beyond the fact that > services on down hosts are still checked, your scenario WRT >

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-19 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Hari Sekhon wrote: > Andreas Ericsson wrote: > >>> Could we make this a feature request? >> I think you just did, and I think I just shot it down for nagios 2.x. >> > To be fair, I wasn't asking for this for Nagios 2.x. Nagios 3.x is the > development branch, is it not? > > Also I still think it

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 11:57 AM > To: Andreas Ericsson > Cc: Ton Voon; Marc Powell; Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down >

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 12:08 PM > To: Giles Coochey > Cc: Ton Voon; Marc Powell; Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down > >

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Hari Sekhon
Giles Coochey wrote: > I thought about this when writing my post on this particular thread, but > then thought - how do I find out that the host has recovered from its > downtime? > Is this not the defined point of host checks? When the host check detects that the host is up again, then servic

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Hari Sekhon
Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Hari Sekhon wrote: >>This sounds like a great candidate for scalability to not check >> services on downed hosts? > Not really, because you have to have the resources for checking > everything when nothing is down too. No, I meant there is a situation where if you hav

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Hari Sekhon wrote: > Ton, > >This sounds like a great candidate for scalability to not check > services on downed hosts? > Not really, because you have to have the resources for checking everything when nothing is down too. If you want scalability, see how google built their database. > O

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Giles Coochey
> It would be best if nagios actually did allow configuration of an option > to not check services for downed hosts. I'm not sure if this should be > done on a global or host basis though, host/host template is most > flexible I think. > > Could we make this a feature request? > I thought about

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Hari Sekhon
Ton, This sounds like a great candidate for scalability to not check services on downed hosts? On a large installation with several hosts down, if the service check intervals for broken services increases (as I usually configure it to do) then this could degrade the nagios server. You would

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: Ton Voon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:23 AM > To: Marc Powell > Cc: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down > > > On 18 Sep 2007,

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Giles Coochey
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ton Voon > Sent: 18 September 2007 16:23 > To: Marc Powell > Cc: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down &

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Ton Voon
On 18 Sep 2007, at 15:08, Marc Powell wrote: >> I'm using nagios to check a lot of host and service. When a host is > coming >> down, nagios continue to check the service attached to this host. >> It's >> consume a lot of performance, it's trivial to know that when a >> host is >> down, we do

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Detrak > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 8:47 AM > To: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down > > Hi,

[Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Detrak
Hi, I'm using nagios to check a lot of host and service. When a host is coming down, nagios continue to check the service attached to this host. It's consume a lot of performance, it's trivial to know that when a host is down, we dont get a response from the service associate... how can I fix th