parent host relatiionship

[Neil]

Hi Matt, 

Sorry about my statements. It was really confusing. Anyways, if I configured 
it with d,u,r, does it mean that I will get DOWN and UNREACHABLE email 
messages when srv-a or srv-b goes really down? 

Thanks again. 

Matt Pounsett writes: 

> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Neil wrote: 
> 
>> What I want to happen is receive notifications only if srv-A or srv-B is 
>> really down. Also, what I want is to not get tons of notifications if hosts 
>> are behind a down parent. So something like this message is what I want to 
>> receive: 
> 
> [...] 
> 
>> 2. svr-a or svr-B is unreachable
> 
> Your paragraph above and point #2 seem contradictory to me.  On the one hand
> you ask to only be notified if a host is really down, but then you include #2 in
> the list of notifications you want. 
> 
> Regardless of which is true, your parent config for the hosts would look like
> this: 
> 
> Host                       Parent
> svr-A                    router-B
> svr-B                    router-B
> workstations             router-C
> router-B                 router-A
> router-C                 router-A 
> 
> Now, depending on which of the two above options you really want (the
> paragraph, or the list) you would configure notification_options for all those
> hosts differently. 
> 
> If it's the paragraph's description (where you only get notified if a host is
> truly down), then you'd use 'd,r' (down, and recovery).  If your list is
> accurate, where you also want to be notified if hosts are unreachable, then
> you'd use 'd,u,r' (down, unreachable, and recovery). 
> 
> 
> -- 
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> Technical Support Programmer                    350 Sparks Street, Suite 1110
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