Map / Host Parents / Redundant Rings

[Michael W. Lucas]

My network has a few small rings in it.  Certain hosts have multiple
IP addresses.  I use separate hosts entries for those.

It's ugly, but it works.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:50:44AM -0400, Adam Kennedy wrote:
> I am also interested in everyone elses feedback with this. We have 
> several rings in our network for redundancy and currently I can only 
> monitor one path of the ring.
> 
> Giles Coochey wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a query with regard to setting up links in the statusmap.
> > 
> > In our environment we have high availability redundant rings, e.g. 
> > MetroEthernet & RPR.
> > 
> > If I try to set up parents as per the infrastructure e.g. each member of 
> > a ring has parents of both its neighbors then Nagios complains during 
> > the pre-flight check:
> > 
> > Error: There is a circular parent/child path that exists for host 'HostA'!
> > 
> > Well, yes, very true ? that is our infrastructure design. I understand 
> > that Nagios might have some problems with it?s reachability algorithms, 
> > but I would like to know how people with this kind of infrastructure set 
> > this up.
> > 
> > Feedback is appreciated.
> > 
> > Best regards
> >  
> > Giles
> > 
> > 
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> Adam Kennedy
> Network Administrator
> Cyberlink International
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