parents/dependencies confusion

[Andrew Cruse]

nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:

> yes, I understand, if we had a single point of access on the
> network such as a router or firewall I would have known what
> to do, but all these machines have 1 interface with a
> firewall on each one. So I set up the default gateways for
> each network as a host instead.
> 
> The Status Map does show what I'd expect: nagios --->
> gateway/parent machine
> ---> fans out to a bunch of servers. One thing though the "Status
> Information" for 2 of the 3 gateways are in "Pending" state. They are
> pingable ... little confused on that. It's been 20 hours. hm
> adding a service to them (ping, kinda
> redundant) and they now show  as OK. Known issue? Still using 1.2 btw.

Nagios *will* allow you to configure more than one parent for a host.
Seems to work fine like that for me.

Andrew



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