mario wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> i have my nagios box in an internal network and i monitor "out to the
> world". Sometimes our internet connections is down for some minutes, and
> i get like 40 Mails with alerts.
>
> Thats when the parent dependecy gets intresting. I read the docs to
> understand the differences. I am quite sure i want to use the
> child/parent structure in my case.
>
> Nagio-Box --> Router/Firewall --> A-FEW-Hosts
>
> I am running Ubuntu breezy with nagios 1.3-cvs.20050402-4ubuntu3.2.
>
> define host{
> use generic-host ; Name of host
> template to use
> host_name service.server.de
> address service.server.de
> check_command check-host-alive
> max_check_attempts 20
> notification_interval 5
> notification_period 24x7
> notification_options d,u,r
> parents provider-gateway
> }
>
>
> The exspected parent feature does not work though. If my internet
> connection fails, i still get a error msg for each host, instead from
> the parent "provider-gateway".
> What am i doning wrong?
>
You've added "u" to the notification_options, explicitly telling Nagios
that you want it to notify you for hosts that are down even if its
parent is down as well. Hardly any users at all *really* wants "u" in
their notification_options.
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