AW: Cascading Services/Service hierarchy

[Robert Nelson]

James,

A simple answer to your questions is that VPO and Nagios offer the same
monitoring of hosts and services. What Nagios lacks is an ability to
generate a customer-facing report off the pages that the on-call person
receives that say "Hey, your web-server wasn't in a 100% working state
for 9.2 minutes last month." I'm not sure that there's an easy way to do
what you want, in either 1.2 or 2.0, without making a multi_check hack.

Rob Nelson
Network Engineer
Windchannel Communications
919-538-6326 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mohr James [mailto:james.mohr at elaxy.com] 
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 9:45 AM
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: AW: AW: [Nagios-users] Cascading Services/Service hierarchy
> 
> 
> > I haven't had a look at VPO, but it sounds like Nagios and 
> > VPO works in 
> > a similar fashion, although Nagios lets you configure some of the 
> > options that VPO rams down your throat.
> 
> Actually, the service aspect of VPO seems to be alot more 
> advanced that
> Nagios. I can easily define multi-layered services, as well as complex
> propogation rules. For example, I can say that the status is only
> propagated when more than 50% of the underlying services have 
> reached a
> certain level. If I have two services, that means both have to be red,
> for example. If I add a third service, then only two need to be red
> before it's prograted, without having to change the 
> propagation rules. I
> can also say when 25% of the underlying services are 
> critical, then the
> top level is only a warning. At 40%, the top level has a severity of
> major. Finally, at 60%, the top level has a severity of critical. 
> 
> VPO also has some faily fine control over who sees what. I can define
> services that only specific users see. Or I can define commands that
> only specific users can run. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Mohr
> 
> 
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