Everything works! But I want more!

[Ben Hyde]

Nagios is wonderful.  I had very little trouble setting it up and it's 
humming away; bringing my attention to all kinds of trivial problems 
(like links with dropping packets).   Big sister and her false 
negatives is history.

I was particularly impressed by the status map.  The drawing it 
spontaneously created from my hierarchy of parent/child relationships - 
sweet.

So of course now I want to do more; so I break everything and can go 
back to hacking stuff together rather than fixing all those trivial 
things (like disks filling up) it keeps noticing.

I have some devices (and some entire networks/providers) that I haven't 
puzzled out ways to monitor or represent.

For example I have a modem i can't seem to monitor explicitly; so I 
made a host for it and put it parent/child topology.  But it hasn't got 
any services so it always reports as "pending."  What do people do 
about that?   I could make a fake service that reports that all is 
fine; but that isn't really the case.

The second example is cases where I have a provider or network as an 
intermediary.  In a sense this is just like my modem.  I'd like to 
render them as a cloud with no particular status; is there a standard 
way people do that?

If I was really going wild then I would have some scheme that 
heuristically pushes the status of these devices around based on the 
status of all the adjacent components.

  - ben

did I mention that nagios is wonderful?

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