Host Dependencies

[Michael Skelton]

Hi all.

I'm fairly new to Nagios, but so far I've managed to configure everything by
reading the documentation and through a bit of trial and error. I have now
hit my first and probably not my last problem.

I am monitoring a fully meshed network, i.e. switch 3 connects to switch 1
and switch 2 to get to switch 4.

Therefore if switch 1 fails switch 3 can still connect to switch 4 through
switch 2.

I want to configure host dependencies so switch 3 depends on switch 1 and
switch 2. If switch 1 or switch 2 fail I still wish to receive notifications
from switch 3 however if switch 1 and switch 2 fail I do not wish to receive
notifications from switch 3.

My question is will the host definition below do the job?

define hostdependency{
	host_name 		switch1,switch2
	dependent_host_name 		switch3
	notification_failure_criteria 		d,u
	}


Thanks in advance.

Mick


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