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[Clif J. Smith]

In this scenario, I'd have 2 hosts, one for the 0 and one for the 172 
network and setup the services, etc. under the appropriate host.

cjs

Tom DE BLENDE wrote:

>I hate it when this happens...
>
>So, now the full story...
>
>I did that, and then I see two links on the Status Map page. That is
>OK. Now the question is: what is the result of this? What will happen
>if one of the two parents goes down?
>
>You see, what I have is this:
>
>Nagios box:
>IF A: 172.20.200.109
>IF B: 10.30.66.66
>
>Server:
>IF A: 172.20.200.40
>IF B: 10.30.66.10
>
>10. goes to a router
>172.20. goes to a switch
>
>This server has the 10.30.66.10 IP as host_address. This is the IP of
>the private GigaBit backbone that both this server and the nagios box
>share. 
>
>Now, some service checks are done over the 10. network, and some are
>done over the 172.20. network. However, since the server is defined
>with its 10. IP, Nagios will only see this host as being down when it
>receives no reply from that interface. It doesn't care about the other
>one. So what would be the advantage of adding the switch on the
>172.20. network as a parent, if you know that if that interface fails,
>Nagios will not see it as a down host?
>
>I hope you know what I mean...
>
>Tom DE BLENDE wrote:
>  
>
>>I did that, and then I see two links on the Status Map page. That is
>>OK. Now the question is: what is the result of this? What will happen
>>if one of the two parents goes down?
>>
>>You see, what I have is this:
>>
>>Nagios box:
>>IF A: 172.20.200.109
>>IF B: 10.30.66.66
>>
>>Server:
>>IF A: 172.20.200.40
>>IF B: 10.30.66.10
>>
>>This server has the 10.30.66.10 IP as host_address. This is the IP of
>>the private GigaBit backbone that both this server and the nagios box
>>share.
>>
>>Now, some service checks are done over the 10.
>>    
>>
>
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