parents question again

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:39 PM -0500 Matt Pounsett 
<matt.pounsett at cira.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>
>> And as usual, this dependency tree fails immediately if you have
>> multiple  nagios servers for redundancy purposes, that are located in
>> disparate  locations (part of the whole idea behind redundancy).  I
>> seriously think  how parents are handled in Nagios need to be
>> re-evaluated to truly handle  multiple-nagios environments.
>
> Well.. yeah.  If your Nagios servers are in completely different
> locations on your network, then the dependancy tree will look completely
> different for many hosts.
>
> If you want some dependancy scheme that will allow you to use identical
> configuration files for Nagios servers in disparate locations, I'm sure
> the Nagios developers would love to hear your ideas.

Oh, I already posted my idea. ;) Have the nagios.cfg file define the parent 
for the nagios server.  As long as every host/switch/router has their 
parents defined, nagios could easily build the map based on who its parent 
is (what switch it is connected to), regardless of where it is located... 
Then the hosts configuration files can be the same across multiple nagios 
servers.  You almost get network dependency map too. :P

--Quanah

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