hosts dependancies not working [Virus scanned]
Ralf Gross
Ralf-Lists at ralfgross.de
Tue Dec 7 17:43:31 CET 2004
srunschke at abit.de schrieb am 06.12.2004 17:05:17:
> > Well, I think hostdependencies are more flexible, but I might be
> > wrong. I have to confess that I dicovered the parent option after
> > trying dependencies. Is the parent options a solution for hosts
> > that depend on a lot of routers/firewalls?
>
> They might be more flexible, but they are not meant to be used that
> way actually. Only the use of the parent option ensures that network
> outages are detected properly by Nagios.
>
> Parent = physical dependency
> host_dependency = logical dependency
Ok, I understand!
> > Something like that?
> >
> > monitoring client -> rt1 -> fw1 -> rt -> fw2 -> rt2 -> client
>
> Using the parent option enables you to rebuild your actual network
> topology within Nagios.
I tried that today and it's working fine. Thanks.
Ralf
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