parent/child setup not working

[Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)]

Hi David,

I'm not clued up on parent/child relationships between hosts, however 
one thing I believe might be happening is that the example of the alert 
you've sent for the service - it might be a "reminder" notification that 
the service is still down.  (Perhaps as a result of escalation settings?)

I think this is because it has a delay in the state variable - ie. 
"CRITICAL for xxxxx" as opposed to just "CRITICAL."

What's the definition for that service?

Andy.


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:
>
> 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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