Fake host/services

[Albert Shih]

 Le 07/09/2009 à 08:50:58+0100, Jim Avery a écrit
> 2009/9/7 Albert Shih <Albert.Shih at obspm.fr>:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Is that possible to create some (>1) fake host/service ?
> >
> > My nagios monitor many hosts/services, some server is on UPS, but many off
> > then is not on UPS. When my power going down I've got many of many of
> > alerte (of course my nagios-server is on UPS).
> >
> > So I don't want to make >1000 acknowledge, and I would like to create some
> > fake hosts, and make all my no_UPS host depend on it. So when the power
> > going down I can put those fake host to down and don't get > 1000 messages.
> >
> > If I can create dependency between fake-host it's better
> >
> > Any idea ?
> 
> I would simply choose a device which is not on on the UPS (preferably
> a simple one which is not so likely to be turned off routinely or
> accidentally or break of its own accord) and make it the 'parent' of
> all the other non-UPS hosts on the same power circuit.  The advantage
> of this approach is it's not fake so Nagios should do the right thing
> and only notify you for that one device if the power fails.

I known that's is a solution but, it's not so simple because we have many
hosts on many location, in some those location we don't have the control of
what we monitor (just ping), so if the administrator of one server turn it off we
don't want nagios forget other server. We thinking to use the network
switch to do that, but sometime the network switch can be change, etc...
Because of that I like to create a fake host for only the power purpose and
don't want put this test on other server.

Thanks for the tips.

Regards. 

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