Nagios Configuration Parent/Child hosts

[Jeff Shumard - DefenseWeb Technologies]

What you are saying is to use service dependencies instead of
parent/client hosts.  I could do this it's just a lot of configuration
and I was trying to see if we could do it with the parent/client host
configuration.

Is that what you are saying to setup is to depend all the checks to the
one NRPE_NT service?

Thank you,
Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron M. Segura [mailto:aaron.segura at cabelas.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 1:46 PM
To: Jeff Shumard - DefenseWeb Technologies
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Configuration Parent/Child hosts

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 12:45 -0800, Jeff Shumard - DefenseWeb
Technologies wrote: 
> We have Nagios running its checks just fine.  What have a mix network
of
> Windows and UNIX Servers.  We have a windows server running NRPE_NT
> which we run all our WMI Checks from for each of the windows hosts.
We
> send our checks to this host it submits a WMI Query to the correct
host
> then sends back the response.  This is working just find with out any
> problems.  We had a problem last week where the NRPE_NT service
stopped
> accepting checks and started a ping flood.  That is the background and
> here is my question.  Can we resolve this making this Server running
> NRPE_NT the parent of all our windows service checks?  What we would
> like to do is if a service goes down it then runs the check on the
> parent to see if it is up.  If the parent is not up then it suppresses
> all the alerts for all childs to the parent server.  Is this possible,
I
> have tried a couple of configurations but have not been able to get
this
> to work.
> 
> Thank you,
> Jeff

<sorry if this is a duplicate.  Evolution crashed while sending the
first time>

That is entirely possible.  It's what we do for all of our NRPE-based
checks.  If the NRPE daemon is unresponsive on any given server we just
get the one alarm for "NRPE_Alive" instead of multiple alarms for all
the checks that depend on NRPE.

Instead of making the *server* the parent, make the NRPE_NT *service* on
that server the parent of all NRPE_NT-based service checks that happen
through it.


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