Host dependency puzzle

[Donal Hunt]

Bas,

You need to define a "parents" in hosts.cfg for the specific host.  See
the host info webpage for more information.

Regards

Donal
DCU



Bas van der Veen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been experimenting with Nagios all weekend and I must say I really like it. It most likely will lighten the load on our primary monitoring system (if not replacing it).
> However, I have a small qustion regarding host dependencies:
> 
> Suppose I have two hosts, a router and a firewall behind this router. If the router is down, nagios should be aware of the fact that it can't reach the firewall (this is being monitored over the internet, not from inside the network). I made a host dependency like this:
> 
> define hostdependency{
>         host_name Host1
>         dependent_host_name Host2
>         notification_failure_criteria d }
> When using this dependency, Nagios doesn't see host2 as a dependent host on host1. The status map also shows host2 directly connected to the Nagios process instead of host1.
> I'm quite clueless here, any help wouldy (ofcourse) be appreciated.
> Bas van der Veen
> Sysadmin Kahuna Group
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