Host Dependancy

Jasmine jasmine.chua at securecirt.com
Fri May 2 04:18:56 CEST 2003


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Hello 

You can try using the `parents option` in your host template setting it to the 
name of your switch. 

If still unsure, try to take a look at: 
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html

:-)

On Friday 02 May 2003 04:05, Bill Thompson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having an issue with host dependencies. I have set-up a test system
> running an FTP server behind a switch. I have set-up monitoring for the
> switch and the server, and then created a service dependency for the FTP
> service and a host dependency for the server itself. If the switch is down
> notifications for the FTP system are suppressed, but checks are allowed
> through (I want them to show as down on the status page).
>
> However when I shut down the switch the service notification is
> suppressed, but the host notification goes through. It is also interesting
> to note that the host notification always comes through before
> notification of the switch being down. This leads me to believe that the
> host for the FTP server is simply timing out before the switch, but I
> can't seem to adjust the polling time to make sure that the switch is
> queued before the FTP host.
>
> Has anyone run into this before? Please tell me I am missing something
> obvious.

- -- 
Jasmine Chua

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens.  The
sleeper must be awaken." -- Duke Leto Atreides
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQE+sdWTNgvTa7Hj2AURAsaMAKCCYYNpWGqSzfXpnogQJc0D+gz+sQCfd7By
yrSHKu3GzqGUT8I0IWS/4bA=
=PjNI
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----



-------------------------------------------------------
This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek
Welcome to geek heaven.
http://thinkgeek.com/sf
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null





More information about the Users mailing list