Dependants

[nagios at mattmartin.co.uk]

Mark,

Thank you for your swift reply - thought it was being sarcastic at first ;)

Just to confirm the hostname specified, do that have to be ANOTHER host in
the hosts.conf file? Or a real "internet" hostname as such?

Matt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Nadir [mailto:mnadir at sympatico.ca] 
> Sent: 13 December 2004 9:55 PM
> To: nagios at mattmartin.co.uk
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Dependants
> 
> Hi Matt,
> 
> Try this - in the hosts.cfg file, specify the PARENTS for 
> each host, for 
> e.g.
> 
> PARENTS  www.godhelpme.com www.pleaseletthiswork.com
> 
> That setting should help to prevent those messages, and only 
> give send a 
> message regarding the parent.
> 
> Let me know how it goes.
> 
> Mark.
> 
> nagios at mattmartin.co.uk wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have been running Nagios for some time yet never managed 
> to work this out.
> >
> >We have a Nagios box monitoring external hosts (on another 
> network). Now
> >when that network goes down, Nagios will think the 
> hosts/services are down
> >and we get an email and text for each one going down then up.
> >
> >Is there a way I can set a global dependant for all hosts 
> and services to
> >say if I cant ping/reach X.X.X.X to not notify/check other hosts etc.
> >
> >This would save us a lot of money on the texts etc.
> >
> >Any help or guidance would be great!
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Matt
> >
> >
> >
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