Nagios and virtualization

[Andrew Cruse]

Stephan Seitz wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm using Nagios 2.6 with Debian Etch.
> 
> I was wondering how I can teach Nagios to know about virtualization,
> in my case XEN environments. The parent concept does not work,
> because it is designed for networks. And the Dom0 is not necessary in
> the same network as the different DomUs. How are you solving the
> problem? 
> 
> And if I have a host downtime for a Dom0 I would like Nagios to
> activate automatically a downtime for all DomUs. How can I do this?

I'm not sure why a parent/child relationship doesn't work for you here.
Just make each of your DomUs dependent on Dom0.  It might make the
automatically generated status map look a little funny, but that's generally
useless beyond a few hundred hosts anyway.

Andrew


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