Preventing false errors

[Andreas Ericsson]

Sandoval, Julio wrote:
> Considered Nagios List,
> 
> I need to know the parent schema in the following case:
> 
> <<ole0.bmp>>
> 
> I believed this: The parent for the host (serverx) is the next hop to
> Internet, but reading the documentation, it say that the parent of
> the host is the next hop to Nagios Server.
> 
> Note: Sorry for my english, and for the rich text mail.
> 
> Plase i hope for yours responses. Thank! Julio Sandoval Schwartzmann
> 

The documentation doesn't lie (usually). Get used to trusting it. It 
will save you a lot of headache later on.

> 
> -----Mensaje original----- De:
> nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]En nombre de Tedman
> Eng Enviado el: martes, 12 de octubre de 2004 16:55 Para: Nagios CC:
> 'Richard Thomas' Asunto: RE: [Nagios-users] Preventing false errors
> 
> 
> Simple solution: add the ISP's router as parent to all internet-based
> hosts. Parent can be specified in the template host, which should
> make the change relatively painless.
> 
> Nagios | | ISP router / \ /   \ /     \ host1  host2
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Richard Thomas
> [mailto:lists at cyberlot.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 11:27 AM 
> To: Nagios Subject: [Nagios-users] Preventing false errors
> 
> 
> Is there a way to setup the monitoring service so it monitors its own
>  server and does not send errors if its down..
> 
> Example
> 
> Server 1 - Nagios Server
> 
> 
> Server 2 - Monitored Server
> 
> If the ISP for server 1 hiccups I get errors reporting Server 2, I
> would like to prevent this.

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


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