Everything works! But I want more!

[Andreas Ericsson]

Mark D. Nagel wrote:
> Daniel maher wrote:
> 
>> 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?
>>  
>>
> Ya mean, like this?
> 
> define host {
>    use                         generic-host
>    check_command               check_ok
>    max_check_attempts          1
>    notification_interval       60
>    notification_period         never
>    notification_options        n
>    host_name                   some-hub
>    alias                       Some Unmanaged Hub
>    address                     127.0.0.1
>    parents                     parent-host
> }
> 

That's correct, except that nagios will fail miserably to recognize 
network outages. I suggest you set address of the dummy host to the 
dummy's real parent (ofcourse, that might just be 127.0.0.1, but it 
wasn't exactly obvious in the above example).


> The check_ok command is simply a call to 'check_dummy OK'.  You can then 
> use this as a parent for whatever devices are behind it, but it itself 
> will always appear up.
> 
> Mark
> 

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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