Monitoring routers with accurate dependancies

[Frank Sweetser]

I'm at an impasse here.  I've got a number of routers that need to be
monitored, and I can't find a good way to represent them in nagios.

I've looked through the mailing lists a bit, and the closest scenario that
I can find is someone dealing with a multihomed host.  I'd rather not create
a gaggle of hosts for each router.  I'd like to be able to create a single
host with the circuitless IP for monitoring services on the router (checking
routes, SNMP agent, etc) and a ping based service for checking the status of
each of the other interfaces.  This would work fine, except that downstream
nodes can't be made to depend upon a service.

So does anyone have any suggestions how this could be configured?  Or is there
any chance that in future versions, a host could be made to depend upon a
service instead of another host?

-- 
Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu
WPI Network Engineer


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