parents question again

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:51 PM -0500 Matt Pounsett 
<matt.pounsett at cira.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>
>> Oh, I already posted my idea. ;) Have the nagios.cfg file define the
>> parent  for the nagios server.  As long as every host/switch/router has
>> their  parents defined, nagios could easily build the map based on who
>> its parent  is (what switch it is connected to), regardless of where it
>> is located...  Then the hosts configuration files can be the same across
>> multiple nagios  servers.  You almost get network dependency map too. :P
>
> Not so.  Take this simple case as an example:
>
>                           Nagios Server A
>                                 |
>                                 |
>                                 |
>               Host ii ---   Switch 1 ----- Host i
>                                 |
>                                 |
>                                 |
>               Host iii ----  Switch 2 ----- Host iv
>                                |
>                                 |
>                                 |
>                              Nagios Server B
>
>
> The perspective of Nagios Server A is that Switch 1 is the parent of
> Switch 2. Nagios Server B's perspective is that Switch 2 is the parent of
> Switch 1. Simply telling each Nagios server which switch they're
> connected to won't adjust the dependancies as you appear to desire.

Matt,

Okay, good point, you don't get the network dependency there. ;)  You still 
get the correct mapping for the two nagios servers though, which is really 
what I want more than anything.

--Quanah

--
Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITSS/TSS/Computing Systems
ITSS/TSS/Infrastructure Operations
Stanford University
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