parent host relatiionship

[Neil]

Hi Matt, 

I got it now. This is where multiple nagios servers across the network 
becomes very useful. This is cool. 

Thanks. :) 

Matt Pounsett writes: 

> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Neil wrote: 
> 
>> Hi Matt,  
>> 
>> Sorry about my statements. It was really confusing. Anyways, if I configured 
>> it with d,u,r, does it mean that I will get DOWN and UNREACHABLE email 
>> messages when srv-a or srv-b goes really down? 
> 
> No.. "down" and "unreachable" are mutually exclusive... a host can only be in
> one state or the other at any given time.  If Nagios can contact a host's
> parent(s), but not the host, then the host is down.  If Nagios cannot contact
> the host's parent(s), then the status of the host cannot be known, so it is
> marked as unreachable. 
> 
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