Monitoring routers with accurate dependancies

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Frank Sweetser wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:13:06PM -0500, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> > For routers I tend to use either the loopback IP addr (if configured) or 
> > the closest IP address to nagios under normal routing.
> 
> That will work for monitoring additional entities on the router itself, but
> then how do I make other hosts further downstream dependant upon not just the
> loopback interface of the router, but upon the particular interface one the
> router that it's connected to?
> 
> 

You can use the router as a parent if there are no duplicate routes to the 
downstream hosts.

You can use service-dependencies - check_ifstatus on the router for link 
status. or use multiple check_ifoperstatus - one for each link.

Service dependencies can be a bit messy in this instance.

-- 
-sg



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