Nagios Status Map - Center of the universe

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Monday, January 12, 2004 4:04 PM -0500 Frank Pikelner 
<pikelner at rogers.com> wrote:

>
>>> The Nagios process is the machine running Nagios. It will always be the
>>> center of the Status Map universe. Where other devices are in
> relationship
>>> to the Nagios Process is determined by the parent configuration.
>
>> I still maintain this is wrong.  If you are trying to set up redundant
>> Nagios servers for failover purposes, the statusmap is completely in
>> correct for the second server, especially if it is located in a
>> completely  different area.  I think it would be much better to be able
>> to tell the  nagios servers what its parents are as well as the parents
>> of all the other
>
>> systems, and then draw a universe-centric view based upon that
>> information,
>
>> so *any* nagios server would be correct.
>
> How do I specify that the parent for a particular device is NAGIOS (Nagios
> process?
>
> I would also second that it would be helpful to be able to specify which
> server owns the Nagios process as we will shortly be setting up a
> redundant Nagios environment.

You can't, that is the problem. ;)

--Quanah

--
Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITSS/TSS/Computing Systems
ITSS/TSS/Infrastructure Operations
Stanford University
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