parents question again

[Matt Pounsett]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> 
> 
> --On Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:58 PM -0500 Matt Pounsett 
> <matt.pounsett at cira.ca> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> >
> >> Okay, good point, you don't get the network dependency there. ;)  You
> >> still  get the correct mapping for the two nagios servers though, which
> >> is really  what I want more than anything.
> >
> > Right.. but if you're not getting dependancies, then you've broken the way
> > the parent/child relationship is intended to work.
> 
> Well, you still won't get this with how nagios currently works right now, 
> anyway, because you draw the parent/child relationships as they go to 
> Nagios, not how they are dependant on one another.  Using your own example, 
> if my one and only nagios server is on switch 2, which is dependant on 
> switch 1, switch 2 would still need to be the parent of switch 1 for Nagios 
> to function correctly.

Huh?  

Yes, you do get proper dependancy relationships right now.   If your one and
only nagios server is connected to switch 2, then switch 2 is the parent of
switch 1.  Accessing switch 2 from the nagios server is not dependant in any
way on switch 1 being accessible.


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