I think you're looking for the check_cluster2 program, which is in the contrib/ directory of the plugins package. You can use that to define a host/service whose state is influenced directly by the states of one or more other hosts/services.
-- A. Karl Kornel, Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (949) 579-3503 "Remember the Rules: Separation & Optimization" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/22/2006 03:09:12 PM: > Greetings, all. I'm in the process of transitioning from Mon to Nagios, > and have a few holes to fill in when it comes to "recreating" our old > configuration. I was hoping someone could comment on this one: > > In our old system, we monitored the health of our connection to the > Internet by checking packet loss and round trip times in ping packets > sent to www.google.com and www.yahoo.com. Because either site was > liable to have localized, temporary problems, we only triggered an alert > if all of the sites we were pinging were experiencing a warning (which > usually meant there was a problem with our connection, as opposed to one > with theirs). > > In Mon, this was done with a config option that said "only consider this > group of hosts to have a problem if ALL of them have a problem." So > far, I can't find a way to do this in Nagios; I tried it with host > dependencies, creative check plugin setups, etc. and can't seem to do it > reliably/gracefully. > > Any thoughts or recommendations? > > Thanks! > Chris > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > [email protected] > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
