Inheritence and host dependencies

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Nedim Bicic
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 5:25 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Inheritence and host dependencies
> 
> hey guys
> 
> I have nagios 2.4 on my linux
> 
> i also have 54 host dependencies set up the follwing way
> 
> define hostdependency{
>  host_name   parent
>  dependent_host_name  child1,child2,child3
>  notification_failure_criteria d,u ; These are the criteria for which
> notifications will be suppressed
>  }
> 
> parent is my master hostname and child1 and child2 and child3 are are
the
> dependents as you can see
> 
> Now what I read from the manual if "parent" goes down then logically
> child1, child2 and child3 are also down thats what i see on my network

It sounds to me that what you _really_ want is to use the 'parents'
directive in your child host{} definitions, not host dependencies.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#host
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/networkreachability.html

>From the Host Dependencies docs as well --

"BEWARE! Do not confuse host dependencies with parent/child host
relationships. You should be using parent/child host relationships
(defined with the parents directive in host definitions) for most cases,
rather than host dependencies."

--
Marc


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