Not a valid parent

Mark Elsen mark.elsen at gmail.com
Tue Dec 21 14:53:00 CET 2010


> What causes this error message:
>
> Error: 'pm2fwi' is not a valid parent for host 'pm2fw'!
>
> This is the insdie, and outside of a firewall. They are in 2 diferent
> subnets, and 2 different domains. Still, this relatiionship is corect, and
> I would expcect Nagios to allow me to define it,
>

 - Make sure the 'host_name' definition in the nagios configuration
file, matches the
intended name of the parent. Sometimes people use alternate names, and
confuse with the
fact that if host_name is used, then NAGIOS does not use DNS names.

M.

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