Well I am not sure how parenting would affect my monitoring hiearchy. If
you look at this image for my setup
http://www.panix.com/~kylet/nagconf.png
... if the distributed server is monitoring the firewall system as it's
in the same remote location from the central server, and that firewall
I don't run distributed, but I do use the parent option with hosts to point
to the switch that they are behind. I see the parent/child relationship not
so much from a visual perspective but more from a functional perspective.
Since I don't want to get a zillion notifications if one of the switches