What is the difference between "host dependencies" and the "parents" directive in hosts.cfg?

[David Elze]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:03:38AM -0400, Phillip.Wilson at gwinnettcounty.com wrote:

Hi, 

> What is the difference between "host dependencies" and the "parents"
> directive in hosts.cfg?

As far as I know, host dependencies are the advanced version of
parent/child relations. So for normal use you should be fine with
parent-directives but if you need more special treatment for special
host dependencies you can use these to achieve more detailed
notifications. 

More on http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/dependencies.html

CU
  David
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