Find out which device failed first - Help

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Chaudhry, Zaeem
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 1:23 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Find out which device failed first - Help
> 
> 
> My apologies... The spell check in Windows changed the word "Nagios"
to
> Anglos.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a bunch of devices that I monitor using Nagios 2.0. All the
> devices in my network are connected to each other in one way or the
> other, which means that if one device in the network fails, it impacts
> the other devices as well. I want to know if there is a way to find
out
> which device in the network failed "first" and caused disruption in
> service. That way, I will not have to deal with the devices that are
> dependant on that "first" device to get their service.
> 
> Is there any plug-in/software available to monitor that? Pinging the
> device through Nagios to find out if the it is up and running, does
not
> always help!
> 
> Please advise.

Use the 'parents' directive... That's probably what you're looking for. 

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/networkreachability.html

--
Marc


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