Service parents...

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 09/17/2012 09:41 AM, Johannes Dagemark wrote:
> On 2012-09-14 18:45, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>> For the (extremely) common "depend on a client version check" thing,
>> that would look something like this:
>> define service {
>>      use            some-suitable-template
>>      host_name      A
>>      description    NRPE Disk /
>>      parents        NRPE Version Check
>> }
> Can I do
> 
> define service {
>      use            some-suitable-template
>      host_name      A
>      description    PING
>      parents        switchA;PING
> }
> 

Yes.

> or do I need a service dependency for that?
> 

No, but you could use one if you want. However, the ping scenario is
a bit dubious since services implicitly depend on their host being up
and with switches it's natural to use ping to do that check.

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