<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Hello, <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I’ve been trying to reduce the number of hosts I get notifications for to one when a parent dies. For example, if a set of server all have the same parent and that parents goes down I’d like to only get notified on the parent going down, not all the children. I have parents defined for every host in my environment but I still get notifications for both the children and the parents, so I think I’ve missed something. I’ve considered setting up host dependencies but it looks like that would be overkill for this, besides, creating dependency definition for every hop containing the proper children from that checking servers point of view would be time consuming and error prone at the least. Inheritance would make it better of course but <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> How is this normally handled? If host dependencies are necessary what is the purpose of defining ‘parents’ under host definitions? I see that the documentation states that host dependencies should not be confused with parents and only parents are usually necessary, but they don’t seem to be limiting my notifications when a VPN tunnel to a remote site goes down. (for example)<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Any help would be greatly appreciated. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thank you, <o:p></o:p> Jesse<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>