Parents vs Dependencies ?

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--- John Lange <john.lange at bighostbox.com> escribió:
> 
> The only issue is that occasionally the cable modem link will go
> down
> and this results in a lot of false notices being queued up on my
> desktop
> machine and then when the link returns a get a flood of pages.

[..]

> Currently I have the cable companies router with check_ping set as
> the
> parent for all of my servers and I have it's host settings so that
> I
> don't receive notifications for that router. The theory being that
> if
> the router can't be reached then the cable modem is down and I
> don't
> want any notices to be sent out. The documentation mentions that
> nagios
> "walks" the parents before sending out notices but is rather vague
> on
> exactly how to make this work.
> 
> Can someone help me out and point me in the right direction?

Check if your cablemodem has an internal IP where you could ping.

My cablemodem has an internal IP as 192.168.100.1, try if your
cablemodem responds to a ping to that ip or do a traceroute (tracert
on windows)

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