AW: Cascading Services/Service hierarchy

[Mohr James]

Servus Gerd!

Thanks for that kick in the pants. I missed that because I was not really thinking about it in terms of a "dependancy", per se. The biggest issue is that in the OpenView model our services are not tied to a host, more or less virtual. That is, we have services that are dependant on the services on two hosts. If one goes down, then the service is still accessible. Only when both of the bottom-level services go down is the service down. This top-level service is never checked directly, it's just dependant on the other two.

The real problem is reporting/SLAs. We are required to guarantee the top-level services, but the lower-level services determine if the top-level service is accessible. However, as I said, this is the OpenView model and we really need to keep away from trying to figure out how to "port" OpenView to Nagios. Instead, we need to look at the services we are providing and how we can monitor them with Nagios.

Danke and Greetings from Coburg!

James Mohr

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Von: Gerd Müller [mailto:gmueller at netways.de] 
Gesendet: Freitag, 24. September 2004 14:49
An: Mohr James
Cc: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Betreff: Re: [Nagios-users] Cascading Services/Service hierarchy


Hi James,

have a look at "Host and Service Dependencies" 

Gerd

Am Fr, den 24.09.2004 schrieb Mohr James um 14:25:
> Hi All!
> 
> Is there any way to cascade services? That is, services that contain 
> other services. When a service at the bottom goes down, the status 
> cascades up to upper levels. We are trying to map our HP OpenView 
> system to Nagios and one of the things we came up against is having a 
> service hierarchy. Any help is greatly appreaciated.
> 
> James Mohr
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