Parents on ubuntu

[Andreas Ericsson]

mario wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> i have my nagios box in an internal network and i monitor "out to the 
> world". Sometimes our internet connections is down for some minutes, and 
> i get like 40 Mails with alerts.
> 
> Thats when the parent dependecy gets intresting. I read the docs to 
> understand the differences. I am quite sure i want to use the 
> child/parent structure in my case.
> 
> Nagio-Box --> Router/Firewall --> A-FEW-Hosts
> 
> I am running Ubuntu breezy with nagios 1.3-cvs.20050402-4ubuntu3.2.
> 
> define host{
>    use                              generic-host      ; Name of host 
> template to use
>    host_name                        service.server.de
>    address                          service.server.de
>    check_command                    check-host-alive
>    max_check_attempts               20
>    notification_interval            5
>    notification_period              24x7
>    notification_options             d,u,r
>    parents                          provider-gateway
> }
> 
> 
> The exspected parent feature does not work though. If my internet 
> connection fails, i still get a error msg for each host, instead from 
> the parent "provider-gateway".
> What am i doning wrong?
> 

You've added "u" to the notification_options, explicitly telling Nagios 
that you want it to notify you for hosts that are down even if its 
parent is down as well. Hardly any users at all *really* wants "u" in 
their notification_options.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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