On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 10:13 -0500, Marc Powell wrote:
Hi Marc, > > However, when the parent machine goes down, all the VMs (for obvious > > reasons) send out a "Oh Noes!" message as well. This is not wanted. > > > > Shouldn't happen if your host checks work properly and you have the > parents directive properly set up to match your environment. > To be more specific, when a border-router or similar goes down, unreachable notifications are sent out for a number of connected machines, vms and so forth; which is pretty obvious imo... This seems to be the main issue DOWNs leading to UNREACHABLES. > > Now the nagios documentation, dating back from the netsaint days, says > > the system to walk a dependency path using parent_host... however the > > hosts.cfg has entries like the following: > > Why are you reading netsaint docuementation? It's incredibly outdated in > general. In this particular regard however, the parents functionality > has remained the same. > Perhaps I wasn't clear; what I meant was the Nagios documentation is very similar indeed to the Netsaint documentation. i.e., Nagios 1.x documention (Last Updated: 10-28-2004), section 'Determining Status and Reachability of Network Hosts', is pretty much a word-for-word copy of the old Netsaint documentation. i.e., compare: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/download/contrib/documentation/english/Nagios_1_0_Docs.pdf and http://www.netsaint.org/download/contrib/docs/netsaint-0.0.7.pdf All the best, Lev ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
