parent/child and alerts

[Rossz Vamos-Wentworth]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Rossz Vamos-Wentworth wrote:
> 
>> I need to improve how alerts are handled.  This morning the internet 
>> connection on my nagios server went down.  This resulted in none of 
>> the remote tests working.  I had thought nagios automatically checked 
>> if the host was reachable if there was a test failure, but from alerts 
>> I'm receiving, this turns out to not be true (or I screwed up 
>> something in the configuration.
>>
> 
> You screwed up your configuration.

I think I see the problem.  Dumb of me.  I'm testing the router that 
connects my nagios server to the internet.  Pinging it works just fine 
even when there is no internet connection.

What do other people use to test their connectivity?

--
Rossz


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