nagios and parenting...

[Patrick Morris]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Eric F Crist wrote:

> Is there any way or any benefit to telling nagios it resides on a
> particular host?  It would appear to me that bit of information would
> be necessary to properly handle notifications and parenting.

Assuming you set up your parents correctly (from the perspective of
Nagios), it'll drop itself into the right place.

And, no, there's no way to tell Nagios whic host it lives on, but again,
if you set up parents correctly, it won't matter.

Say Nagios lives on Box A, and that box plugs into Switch B.  You're
alos monitoring Box C, also attached to Switch B.

Switch B would have a parent of Box A, and Box C would have a parent of
Switch B.  When you look at the status map after setting that up, you'll
see Nagios happily hanging itself off Box A, since it's the topmost
parent of everything else.

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