Multiple host parents?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Steve Shipway wrote:
> In other words, if you define host C as having A and B as parents, and A
> goes down while B stays up, will C still be checked (since at lest one
> parent is alive) or will C be ignored (since at least one parent is dead)?
>  

C will be checked if any of its parents are up. Each parent provides a 
route to the target host, and one is all nagios needs to check that it's 
alive.


> The reason I am asking, is that we have multiple routes between our switches
> -- and if one route goes down, we dont want monitoring of the things behind
> to stop.  However, if both go down, then we do.  Finally, the network
> diagrams will show the correct linkages if defined with multiple parents.
>  
Just make sure you get the routing done properly.


> Does anyone know the answer without my running some tests?
>  
Yes.


> Steve
> 
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