Parent relationship for internet connection?

[Donovan]

I am currently delivering alerts via email and whenever the internet
connection in front of my Nagios box goes down, I get a pile of alerts
for any services that I'm monitoring outside of my local network.

Any tips or links for setting up a parent relationship?  I read
somewhere that checking a few major sites and known IPs outside and
then using check_summary is a good way to verify internet
connectivity.  I'm just not sure where to start to tell the child
services to not worry when the parent is sleeping.

-- 
Donovan Niesen

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