StatusMap Showing "Nagios Process"

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Tuesday, December 02, 2003 2:59 PM -0800 Joe Rhett <jrhett at isite.net> 
wrote:

> There are no 'parents' of Nagios, since the tests originate from Nagios.
> Nagios doesn't depend on anything to reach itself.

Nagios, however, is not the root of the world.  Therefore, I think it 
should have an idea of where its place is in the world it is monitoring.

Right now, a normal status map shows something like

                N
                |
                B
              / | \
             a  b  c

whereas reality may be:

                B
              / | \
             a  b  c
                    \
                     N

Where N is nagios, a, b & c are routers, and N is on a host that is a child 
of c, and B is our backbone.

This would be a much more useful representation of networks.  Nagios 
automatically assumes that it is the center of the universe, and other than 
assigning coordinates, there seems no way to break it of this notion.

--Quanah

--
Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITSS/TSS/Computing Systems
ITSS/TSS/Infrastructure Operations
Stanford University
GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html


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