Monitoring routers with accurate dependancies

[Frank Sweetser]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:29:44PM -0600, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:
> I'd like to suggest that you take a look at the 'parents' directive, for one
> thing.

Yup, I'm familiar with that.

> Also, what you suggest sounds quite viable, moreso than you might think.
> Here's a crude ASCII drawing of what a trivial example might be:
> 
>    Nagios
>     host
>      |
>    [Int0]
>    Router
> [Int1][Int2]
>   |      |
> hosta  hostb
> 
> You would then:

Effectivly, make each interface on the router a seperate host.  I've considered
this, and would prefer not to have to do this.  I'd much rather just be able
to refer the whole router as the single host that it is in other directives.
I'll go this way if there's no other viable options, though...

-- 
Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu
WPI Network Engineer


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