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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Nagios Gurus,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We’ve been using nagios for the past two years (actually centreon/nagios), and are very happy with it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">However, I couldn’t find a way to monitor a distributed resource. Let me explain what I mean.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For example, I may have redundant VPN gateways, so if one goes offline it is not catastrophic.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I may also have monitored devices behind the VPN, so I set up host dependencies.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would like to have host dependency in an “either or” configuration.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I.e. if the primary gateway goes down and the standby takes over, I would still like to be notified about host troubles behind the VPN. Only if both were to be down nagios should stop sending messages.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does that make sense?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m sure there is a way to implement this in Nagios, but I haven’t found out how quite yet…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone implemented something in this way?<o:p></o:p></p>
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