nagios and parenting...

Alex Dehaini alexdehaini at gmail.com
Tue Jan 15 16:23:54 CET 2008


You can make nagios depend on another host or device, that should solve your
problem.

On Jan 15, 2008 2:30 PM, Eric F Crist <ecrist at secure-computing.net> wrote:

> On Jan 14, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Patrick Morris wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> I think I do have all of the parenting set up correctly, but the
> Nagios process appears in the status map in the center, not attached
> to anything.  Should Nagios be at the top of my parenting chain?
> Rather, the nagios host?
>
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> Eric F Crist
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>
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