Everything works! But I want more!

[Daniel maher]

I think that what he's looking for is a way to represent non-monitorable (I'm inventing words now) objects in the automatically generated network map.  This is a neat idea; for example, I'd /love/ to be able to put a hub in that map, and have things hang off of it visually, but since there's no way to intelligently put such an object into the Nagios conf (that I'm aware of), the map remains topologically inaccurate.

To put it another way, I don't want to monitor the hub - I just want to /see/ it placed accurately in the map. :)

Any ideas?


Daniel Maher
System Engineer
ACE TECHNOLOGY INC.
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul DeLong [mailto:pdelong at advance.net] 
Sent: November 23, 2004 4:10 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Everything works! But I want more!

Ben Hyde wrote:

> 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. 

Try reversing the sense of that.  You want to treat the modem like it's 
a service on a dummy host (i.e., use a service check on it).

> 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?

I'm not sure I understand this one.  Why would you want to monitor it if 
you don't want to know its status?  Just monitor what's on the far end 
of it.  Am I missing something?

Later,
Paul.




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