Currently thats how I'm doing it, but instead I use ping and set the IP address to the loopback 127.0.0.1, keep in mind that this object will allways be "OK", even if it's parents are down.... "Kaplan, Andrew H." <AHKAPLAN@PARTNERS.ORG> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hi there, I wanted to better organize the icons on the status map screens and I had an idea on how I could do it. The idea is to create a "dummy" parent node for each grouping of icons. For example, nodes on one floor would be the children of a system that does not actually exist, but is listed exclusively for organizational purposes. To achieve this end I would create a pseudo node account within Nagios via the hostextinfo, hosts, and hostgroups configuration files. To monitor the node I would use the ./check_dummy daemon and configure it as such in the services.cfg file. I would then add the appropriate parents line to the configuration settings of those systems that I want subordinated to the newly created parent. Would this be the correct way to do this? Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</BLOCKQUOTE> <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://rd.yahoo.com/mail/mailsig/*http://mailplus.yahoo.com">Yahoo! Mail Plus</a> - Powerful. Affordable. <a href="http://rd.yahoo.com/mail/mailsig/*http://mailplus.yahoo.com">Sign up now</a>