HyunSung Jang wrote: first thing to remember is a nagios server has no parent since he is the source of test . but in a distributed nagios setting there is the exception to the rule.
> thank you for your comment, > but, I think i already configured like you just said. > actually A1,A2 is not a server but it is our access switch i mean > there are many servers under A1, A2 > > let me describe my environment again, > > BB1->A1->server1, server2, nagios1(center), nagios2(for servers under > A1), nagios3(for servers under A2), nagios4(just for switch monitoring) So all nagios monitoring servers are on the same network connected to the same switch ? > BB1->A2->server3, server4... > > my central server (nagios1) has all objects > definition(BB1,A1,A2,server1,server2,server3....etc) > and then nagios2 has only 2 defined servers which is server1 and server2 > nagios3 has server3, server4 > > if I start nagios daemon on nagios3, it shows me an error like > "there's no parent definition for server3" > because parent for server3 is A2 and parent for A2 is BB1. > and I didn't put config for A2 and BB1 to nagios3. > That it the reason - server3 has a definition of a parent in the file on nagios3 , and since the definition does not match the configuration files , that is the error you get . > I have no problem when i starting nagios in my central server, > cuz central server has all configurations of my servers and switches > > but distributed nagios server which is nagios3 won't start. > > am I doing right or is there a misunderstanding to config nagios properly? > The distributed nagios server should hold parent/child definition only for the hosts they monitor directly, but not for anything "upstream" toward the central server, since they are not being monitored from that machine , the central server should hold for every thing , so it can know the topology and structure , if all the nagios servers are on the same switch - the switch should be the parent for the distributed servers . Assaf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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