-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Dear Folks, | | I am writing to request comments on a proposal to reduce the risk of | loss of Network visibility/spurious alerts etc caused by the failure of | the Nagios host's default gateway.
Hmmm. It is my rather simple view that if monitoring is deemed vital it should rely on redundant paths. Wether you do that with VRRP or some routing protocol is not that important. Then there remains the issue of how Nagios can establish if it still has connectivity. I would create a dummy host for this and use passive checks instead so you can pretty much write your own code to write the status. If you use VRRP you can simply ping thr VRRP address but if you use OSPF for example you need to your OSPF status to see if you still have communication abilities. Perhaps the OSPF plugin might even work for that. But I would priopably write my own code to write a passive check result. I have written something similar for an SMTP loopback test. It fires a test message tracks each step and in the end writes the last known state as a passive check. I used sec to do the correlation required between events for that but that is propably fully outside the scope of this message. Hugo. - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/ PGP/GPG? Use: http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/0x58F19981.asc A: Yes. >Q: Are you sure? >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? Bored? Click on http://spamornot.org/ and rate those images. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFHv9XcBvzDRVjxmYERAvqQAJi1P0LhPld0PGOx3rJiE4wjUmDZAKCsdiLz +5d5H64nuqTkc1sjMGm16Q== =w47u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ 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
