logic/feature request for dependencies

[Peter Westlake]

jmoseley at pgtv.com writes:

> This has probably been brought up before, so I apologize in advance...
>
> According the dependency documentation, when a dependent host (or service)
> has two or more parental host (or service) dependencies, if just one of the
> notification dependencies fail, Nagios will repress notifications for the
> dependent host (service).
>
> With lots of folks using redundant routing and switching, I'd like to see
> logic added to allow for configuration of a dependency setup that would
> require both parental dependencies to fail before repressing notifications
> of the dependent host/service.
>
> For example, we have a switch C that is hooked up to routers A and B.  If
> just one router goes down, we can still get to switch C.  So in our Nagios
> host dependency setup, we want host notifications for switch C repressed
> only if BOTH routers A and B go down (ie, both notification dependencies
> fail).

The parent dependencies, which are separate to host dependencies or
service dependencies, work in exactly this way. They are specifically
meant for representing network topology, so I think they would be
just what you need.

Peter.


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