Parent relationship for internet connection?

[Morris, Patrick]

Donovan wrote:
> I am currently delivering alerts via email and whenever the internet
> connection in front of my Nagios box goes down, I get a pile of alerts
> for any services that I'm monitoring outside of my local network.
>
> Any tips or links for setting up a parent relationship?  I read
> somewhere that checking a few major sites and known IPs outside and
> then using check_summary is a good way to verify internet
> connectivity.  I'm just not sure where to start to tell the child
> services to not worry when the parent is sleeping.

Check your gateway, and make everything else a child of it.

Parent/child relationships are pretty simple, really. Trace the path out 
to what you're monitoring. Everything's parent should be the thing you 
passed through last to get to it. If you're not monitoring that thing, 
whatever it is, it sounds like you want to.

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