parent hosts

[Cook, Garry]

If you're not using a loopback address on the router, I would highly
recommend that you do so. Then, you monitor the host using the loopback
IP, and monitor the individual interfaces using one of the service check
plugins designed for this (check_ifoperstatus; check_ifstatus). Then
your host becomes a single parent again.

Garry W. Cook, CCNA
Network Infrastructure Manager
MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
303.308.6228 (Office) - 720.220.1862 (Mobile) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Neil
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 11:27 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] parent hosts
> 
> 
> Hey guys, 
> 
> I'm new on this list. I have a question about parent hosts. 
> Assuming we have 
> a router with at least 5 different subnets. How are we 
> suppose to configure 
> each host's parent? Coz here is what I am thinking now. 
> 
> Router/switch has 5 interfaces w/ different subnets. Every 
> hosts on each 
> subnet points to the proper ip address of the router or switch as its 
> gateway address. I will use each gateway ip address as 
> parents. But what 
> will happen here(just a guess), is that, I will have 5 
> different icons on 
> the status 3d but in reality, it's just only 1 box. 
> 
> Let me know the proper way. 
> 
> And, how do I implement network topology learning? What are 
> the things I 
> need on the nagios server? What things do I need to enable on the 
> workstations? 
> 
> Thanks in advance. 
> 
> neil
> 
> 
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