nagios and parenting...

[Alex Dehaini]

let us assume nagios is called "localhost" and let us assume that this is
the host definition for nagios

define host{
        use                     linux-server
        host_name          localhost
        alias                   localhost
        address               192.168.1.1
        parents                *local-router*
        }

The above host definition applies to the local nagios server and it shows
that it depends on a router. On your nagios status map - nagios server will
depend on the local-router.

Alex


On Jan 15, 2008 3:40 PM, Eric F Crist <ecrist at secure-computing.net> wrote:

> OK, great.  How?
>
> Eric
>
> On Jan 15, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Alex Dehaini wrote:
>
> > 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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