Service Dependencies
Carl Davis
lists at tswireless.net
Wed Apr 5 23:02:30 CEST 2006
Thank you, this now works as I had hoped.
Carl
n Sat, 2006-04-01 at 19:45 +0200, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Carl Davis wrote:
,
> > I think I have service dependencies backwards in my head. If I were
> > utilizing a flow chart and b required service on a to be up, I would put
> > a as the dependent_service_description and b as the host_name? I have a
> > long line of wireless links and if the first one fails I do not want to
> > be notified that the others will fail as well.
> >
> > Is the status map built from service dependencies, because it appears
> > correctly, however I get service notifications for everything when we
> > have a link problem.
>
> The status maps does not care about dependencies. It only uses the parent
> field.
>
> Assume router arwen and host bilbo. You can only reach bilbo through
> arwen. (Or at least your Nagios checks.)
>
> Then you would define:
>
> define hostdependency {
> dependent_host_name bilbo
> hostname arwen
> .....
>
> I admit it takes some reading and it is propably even more confusing for
> those whose native language is not English.
>
> I would have expected:
>
> define hostdependency {
> hostname bilbo
> depend_on_hostname arwen
> ....
>
> I do recommend to rewrite this to be less ambigious in v3.
>
> Hugo.
>
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