nagios and parenting...

[tom.welsh at bt.com]

Hi Eric,

This is a faq question.

http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=81&expand=false&showdesc=f
alse

Regards

Tom 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Eric F
Crist
Sent: 15 January 2008 14:31
To: Patrick Morris
Cc: Nagios List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios and parenting...

On Jan 14, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Patrick Morris wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Eric F Crist wrote:
>
>> Is there any way or any benefit to telling nagios it resides on a 
>> particular host?  It would appear to me that bit of information would

>> be necessary to properly handle notifications and parenting.
>
> Assuming you set up your parents correctly (from the perspective of 
> Nagios), it'll drop itself into the right place.
>
> And, no, there's no way to tell Nagios whic host it lives on, but 
> again, if you set up parents correctly, it won't matter.
>
> Say Nagios lives on Box A, and that box plugs into Switch B.  You're 
> alos monitoring Box C, also attached to Switch B.
>
> Switch B would have a parent of Box A, and Box C would have a parent 
> of Switch B.  When you look at the status map after setting that up, 
> you'll see Nagios happily hanging itself off Box A, since it's the 
> topmost parent of everything else.


I think I do have all of the parenting set up correctly, but the Nagios
process appears in the status map in the center, not attached  
to anything.  Should Nagios be at the top of my parenting chain?   
Rather, the nagios host?

-----
Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks



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