Map / Host Parents / Redundant Rings

[Adam Kennedy]

I am also interested in everyone elses feedback with this. We have 
several rings in our network for redundancy and currently I can only 
monitor one path of the ring.

Giles Coochey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a query with regard to setting up links in the statusmap.
> 
> In our environment we have high availability redundant rings, e.g. 
> MetroEthernet & RPR.
> 
> If I try to set up parents as per the infrastructure e.g. each member of 
> a ring has parents of both its neighbors then Nagios complains during 
> the pre-flight check:
> 
> Error: There is a circular parent/child path that exists for host 'HostA'!
> 
> Well, yes, very true – that is our infrastructure design. I understand 
> that Nagios might have some problems with it’s reachability algorithms, 
> but I would like to know how people with this kind of infrastructure set 
> this up.
> 
> Feedback is appreciated.
> 
> Best regards
>  
> Giles
> 
> 
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Adam Kennedy
Network Administrator
Cyberlink International
Phone: 888-293-3693 x4352
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