Multiple parent hosts handling?

[Chris McGee]

Alright, hopefully someone else out here has done this or already knows
how this works, if not I might be forced to test it on one of my
non-production boxes this weekend.  If I go this route, I will gladly let
everyone know how Nagios handles this.

Chris

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:

> (I thought I recently saw a page in the Nagios docs which addressed it, but
> I can't find it now.)
>
> Not sure what to tell you, other than it should work as you hope it will.
>
> Having said that, if you find you don't get a satisfactory answer from the
> list, you could do a quick mock-up of a test.  Create a couple of bogus
> 'hosts' which have IP addresses for nonexistent nodes.  Make those the
> parents of a test host you have.
>
> Once you've restarted Nagios, you should start getting notifications for the
> bogus 'hosts'.  Go ahead and acknowledge them (or not).  Observe what (if
> any) changes happen to the status of your test host.  Check out the Network
> Outages.
>
> Then try this:
>
> - Bring down a service on your test host.  does Nagios acknowledge a problem
> with the service?  Do you get a notification in this regard?  What happens
> when you bring the service back up?
>
> - Bring your test host down (ie, disconnect the network cable).  Does Nagios
> acknowledge a problem with the host?  Do you get alerted to this fact?  What
> happens when you bring the host back up (ie, reconnect the network cable)?
>
> If you do decide to test this feature out, would you care to share the
> results to the list?
>
> jc
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris McGee [mailto:chris at xecu.net]
> > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:08 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Multiple parent hosts handling?
> >
> >
> >
> > Please don't flame me, I have done some digging in the archives and
> > documentation and did not find the answer to this one.
> >
> > If 2 or 3 parent hosts are defined for a host, how does it handling
> > detecting unreachability?  Will the host be UNREACHABLE if any of the
> > parents are down or if all of the parents are down.
> >
> > I have a router with multihomed router I'm trying to check from the
> > internet, and I want it to show as up even if one the the
> > lines to it goes
> > down.  But I wanted to use both parents and only have it show
> > down if both
> > of them are down.  I don't know if this is how it will work,
> > any help will
> > be appreciated.
> >
> > Chris
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