Dependency Stuff

[Johannes Dagemark]

An idea for the developers...

Why not use the parents directive to handle host-dependency as well. I see
no point in having the redundant configuration that we have today with
both parents and host/service dependencies.

just an idea

Regards

Johannes Dagemark

> Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2003 06:34 schrieb Roy S. Rapoport:
> Hi Roy,
> Status-Map-CGI works with the parent-directive, service- and
> host-dependency  are doing the notifications, if a host or a service is
> going down. So you don't receive a lot of notifications of hosts and
> services if the dependent  host NEXTHOP is going down.
>
> --
> Michael
>
>> I suspect this was answered before on the mailing list, but I can't
>> search it right now.
>>
>> I'm trying to get statusmap to show hosts in a way that corresponds
>> with the dependency file (so, for example, the next hop is shown
>> connected in a line to my gateway, not directly to the nagios system).
>>
>> My dependency file is:
>> define servicedependency {
>>         host_name                       gw
>>         service_description             ALIVE
>>         dependent_host_name             nexthop
>>         dependent_service_description   ALIVE
>>         execution_failure_criteria      w,u,c
>>         notification_failure_criteria   w,u,c
>> }
>>
>> define hostdependency   {
>>         host_name                       gw
>>         dependent_host_name             nexthop
>>         notification_failure_criteria   d,u
>> }
>>
>> gw is my first hop, nexthop is, well, my next hop.
>>
>> I haven't tested a failure to see if Nagios will do the right thing
>> yet, but statusmap shows gw and nexthop on the same 'level'.  What am
>> I missing?
>>
>> -roy
>>
>>
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