parent/child setup not working

[Patrick Morris]

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007, David Miller wrote:

> 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:

[snip]

That config looks OK, unless I'm missig something.

My guess would be that either the config hasn't been reloaded, or you've
got a couple copies of Nagios running, and one is still using the old
config.

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