<div>On 3/29/07, Eric Webster <<a href="mailto:sophomeric@gmail.com">sophomeric@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I am looking to set some parent directives for some remote hosts here, but the parent would be a firewall that is redundant, as in it is actually two systems that fail over as needed. What would be the best way to set this up in Nagios so that it monitors them correctly and also displays them correctly in the map? I was thinking of making a third host for the firewall that is defined using the IP(s) they share so it is always monitoring the active one. This leaves the question of the status map though. If it's something I just have to deal with, I'm fine with that. I'm just being meticulous really.</blockquote><div> If the firewall solution shares a logical IP address as part of its failover strategy, then I would simply have Nagios monitor that IP address and wouldn't be too concerned about the physical IP addresses that actually map to the hosts on which the firewall can run. As long as the logical address is shown to be the parent of any child services, then the layout in the status map should be fine. If you wanted to include the physical IP addresses of the firewalls, then I guess you could define a host group that contains only both the physical addresses and then the logical address. Defining only the logical address as the parent of any other hosts should hopefully sort out the display issues but I'm not too sure on this. Rob </div> </div>