parent/child pains

[John P. Rouillard]

In message <20051023005049.GC13770748 at CIS.FU-Berlin.DE>,
Holger Weiss writes:

>* Rossz Vamos-Wentworth <rossz at vamos-wentworth.org> [2005-10-21 11:56]:
>> I definately need to get this mess done right because in a week I start 
>> a new job and one of the things I will be taking care of is setting up a 
>> Nagios system for a large number of hosts and services.  Doing it wrong 
>> will multiple this morning's alert problems by a thousand fold! :(
>
>FWIW, I set "parents" simply by tracerouting to the hosts specified in
>the Nagios configuration via "address" and then using (the first part
>of) the name of the last hop prior to the host:
> [...]
>Whether this works and whether it makes sense depends on the network
>layout, of course.

One problem with this is that it misses devices like switches, hubs
and bridges that don't participate in routing. However if they go
down, you will receive alerts about the devices downstream of them.


				-- rouilj
John Rouillard
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