hosts dependancies not working [Virus scanned]

[Ralf Gross]

srunschke at abit.de schrieb am 06.12.2004 17:05:17:

> > Well, I think hostdependencies are more flexible, but I might be
> > wrong. I have to confess that I dicovered the parent option after
> > trying dependencies. Is the parent options a solution for hosts
> > that depend on a lot of routers/firewalls? 
> 
> They might be more flexible, but they are not meant to be used that
> way actually. Only the use of the parent option ensures that network
> outages are detected properly by Nagios. 
> 
> Parent = physical dependency 
> host_dependency = logical dependency 

Ok, I understand!
 
> > Something like that?
> >
> > monitoring client -> rt1 -> fw1 -> rt -> fw2 -> rt2 -> client 
> 
> Using the parent option enables you to rebuild your actual network 
> topology within Nagios. 
 
I tried that today and it's working fine. Thanks. 

Ralf


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