Double-checking the docs I think I just realized this...
If I understand this right, the "parents" option is used for Nagios
itself (prehaps better re-worded as "internally") to define the network
topology for the core host check. If the switch is down, it won't mark a
host as Down, only as Unreachable.
For a "host dependency", I have to define something like this:
define hostdependency{
host_name Host A
dependent_host_name Host C
notification_failure_criteria d
}
define hostdependency{
host_name Host B
dependent_host_name Host C
notification_failure_criteria d,u
}
Am I understanding this right?
What gets me is that what Nagios seems to call a parent is, to me
anyway, a network/host dependency. Hosts are dependent on the network
and services are dependent on hosts. I guess I'm missing where a "host
dependency" would actually be of any value...
A. Davis
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Marc Powell wrote:
On Jun 1, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Andrew Davis wrote:
The bulk of my systems are behind one of three switches. I just went
through my hosts.cfg file and added the "parents" line and
appropriate switch name for each, but the host dependencies aren't
showing up.
Parents and host dependencies are not the same thing. parents is
probably what you want and have configured correctly based on the
information you've provided. Nagios doesn't count them for the summary.
--
Marc
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