parent/child setup not working

[David Miller]

Hi;

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Running nagios 2.5 on debian-stable.  I have the nagios server in one 
data center monitoring 30ish servers in another data center.

In the hosts.cfg file I have a gateway (firewall) defined:

define host {
        use                     generic-host    ; Name of host template 
to use
        host_name               pix
        alias                   PIX
        address                 x.y.z.2
        check_command           check-host-alive
        max_check_attempts      1
        notification_interval   1
        notification_period     24x7
        notification_options    d,u,r
        }


I then use that as a parent to all the hosts I want to monitor in the 
remote data center.  Those have host entries like this;


define host {
        use                     generic-host    ; Name of host template 
to use
        host_name               logweb1
        alias                   Logweb1
        address                 logweb1.foo.com
        parents                 pix
        max_check_attempts      1
        active_checks_enabled   0
        notification_interval   1
        notification_period     24x7
        notification_options    d,r
        }

As I read the documentation, when nagios detects that host "pix" is down 
that it won't check or report on host logweb1.

If the network connection is broken, however, by deleting the default 
route, I get three messages that the pix is down that look like this:

Subject:** PROBLEM alert 1 - PIX host is DOWN **

***** Nagios  *****

Notification Type: PROBLEM
Host: PIX
State: DOWN for 0d 0h 0m 0s
Address: 66.151.232.2
Info:

CRITICAL - Network unreachable (x.y.z.2)

Date/Time: Fri Jan 5 16:17:48 EST 2007

ACK by: 
Comment: 


And a few minutes later I get notice on the child server:

Subject: ** PROBLEM alert 1 - Logweb1/Check Simple Webservers is CRITICAL **

***** Nagios  *****

Notification Type: PROBLEM

Service: Check Simple Webservers
Host: Logweb1
State: CRITICAL for 0d 0h 8m 6s
Address: logweb1.foo.com

Info:

Network is unreachable

Date/Time: Fri Jan 5 16:29:28 EST 2007

ACK by: 
Comment: 


What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,

--- David



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