Marc Powell wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2010, at 8:15 AM, Assaf Flatto wrote:
>
>
>> Hello
>> I have come up with an issue I have not encountered in previous versions
>> of nagios ( the issue is on 3.20 from source on SLES 10.2 64 bits ).
>>
>> I am trying to map a parent child relationships that match my physical
>> network ( host connected to switch), and I am getting this error SWITCH
>> is not a valid parent for host 'HOST'!
>>
>
> hm. The code bit that generates this error is --
>
> /* check all parent parent host */
>
> for(temp_hostsmember=temp_host->parent_hosts;temp_hostsmember!=NULL;temp_hostsmember=temp_hostsmember->next){
>
>
> if((temp_host2=find_host(temp_hostsmember->host_name))==NULL){
> logit(NSLOG_VERIFICATION_ERROR,TRUE,"Error:
> '%s' is not a valid parent for host
> '%s'!",temp_hostsmember->host_name,temp_host->name);
>
>
> I read this to indicate that the parents name you've specified (SWITCH)
> doesn't have a valid host{} definition (i.e. doesn't exist). I could very
> easily be reading this wrong though.
>
>
>> Both HOST and SWITCH are on the same logical network ( 10.0.8.x ) , and
>> from the manual it implies that since they are on the same subnet the
>> definition i with to present is no longer valid in nagios (although it
>> used to be in older versions).
>>
>
> Not sure what you're reading here (reference?) but Nagios has no
> understanding of addressing or subnets. It wouldn't know or care if they were
> on the same subnet. It must be something else.
>
> --
> Marc
Sorry , I was an idiot . I move the directory that contained my network
objects to a new location and forgot to update the nagios.cfg .
Sorry for this .
Assaf
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