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RE: [Nagios-users] Multiple parent hosts handling?
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From: Chris M. <ch...@xe...> - 2003-02-28 21:41:39
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Alright, hopefully someone else out here has done this or already knows how this works, if not I might be forced to test it on one of my non-production boxes this weekend. If I go this route, I will gladly let everyone know how Nagios handles this. Chris On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote: > (I thought I recently saw a page in the Nagios docs which addressed it, but > I can't find it now.) > > Not sure what to tell you, other than it should work as you hope it will. > > Having said that, if you find you don't get a satisfactory answer from the > list, you could do a quick mock-up of a test. Create a couple of bogus > 'hosts' which have IP addresses for nonexistent nodes. Make those the > parents of a test host you have. > > Once you've restarted Nagios, you should start getting notifications for the > bogus 'hosts'. Go ahead and acknowledge them (or not). Observe what (if > any) changes happen to the status of your test host. Check out the Network > Outages. > > Then try this: > > - Bring down a service on your test host. does Nagios acknowledge a problem > with the service? Do you get a notification in this regard? What happens > when you bring the service back up? > > - Bring your test host down (ie, disconnect the network cable). Does Nagios > acknowledge a problem with the host? Do you get alerted to this fact? What > happens when you bring the host back up (ie, reconnect the network cable)? > > If you do decide to test this feature out, would you care to share the > results to the list? > > jc > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris McGee [mailto:ch...@xe...] > > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:08 PM > > To: nag...@li... > > Subject: [Nagios-users] Multiple parent hosts handling? > > > > > > > > Please don't flame me, I have done some digging in the archives and > > documentation and did not find the answer to this one. > > > > If 2 or 3 parent hosts are defined for a host, how does it handling > > detecting unreachability? Will the host be UNREACHABLE if any of the > > parents are down or if all of the parents are down. > > > > I have a router with multihomed router I'm trying to check from the > > internet, and I want it to show as up even if one the the > > lines to it goes > > down. But I wanted to use both parents and only have it show > > down if both > > of them are down. I don't know if this is how it will work, > > any help will > > be appreciated. > > > > Chris > > > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Chris McGee 301-682-9972 > > Xecunet, LLC www.xecu.net > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _______________________________________________ > > Nagios-users mailing list > > Nag...@li... > > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nag...@li... > 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 > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Chris McGee 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLC www.xecu.net xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access |