Everything works! But I want more!

[Paul DeLong]

Ben Hyde wrote:

> For example I have a modem i can't seem to monitor explicitly; so I 
> made a host for it and put it parent/child topology.  But it hasn't 
> got any services so it always reports as "pending."  What do people do 
> about that?   I could make a fake service that reports that all is 
> fine; but that isn't really the case. 

Try reversing the sense of that.  You want to treat the modem like it's 
a service on a dummy host (i.e., use a service check on it).

> The second example is cases where I have a provider or network as an 
> intermediary.  In a sense this is just like my modem.  I'd like to 
> render them as a cloud with no particular status; is there a standard 
> way people do that?

I'm not sure I understand this one.  Why would you want to monitor it if 
you don't want to know its status?  Just monitor what's on the far end 
of it.  Am I missing something?

Later,
Paul.




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