Nested notifications; parent vis-a-vis parent_host

[Lev Lafayette]

Hey nagios people,

Assume I have a happy system of a hypervisor and virtual machines.
Further, there's a neat system of when a machine goes down an SMS and
email is sent to the responsible person.

However, when the parent machine goes down, all the VMs (for obvious
reasons) send out a "Oh Noes!" message as well. This is not wanted.

Now the nagios documentation, dating back from the netsaint days, says
the system to walk a dependency path using parent_host... however the
hosts.cfg has entries like the following:


define host{
        use                     generic-host            ; Name of host
template to use
        host_name               guestvm1
        alias                   guestvm1
        address                 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
        parents                 xendom0
        check_command           check-host-alive
        }

Now presumably, cgis like statusmap.cgi is built from this information.
Would changing 'parents' to 'parent_map' in the above fix the dependency
walk and notifications? And would it break statusmap.cgi?

Thanks in advance,



Lev


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