Andrew Davis wrote: > The bulk of my systems are behind one of three switches. I just went > through my hosts.cfg file and added the "parents" line and appropriate > switch name for each, but the host dependencies aren't showing up. I do > use a host template for most of the servers and then other specifics. > Below is a sample of what's defined. Initially I thought the issue was > the Nagios server being in the same switch as one of the switches, but > the last entry below shows a switch defined as a parent and the Nagios > server is not behind the switch (Nagios is behind flscrb234srvsw5, the > last host is behind flscrb234srvsw6). The VLAN is the same for all the > hosts in the three switches... all hosts operate on 10.1.1.x/16 or > 10.1.80.x/16 which is all a single VLAN. I'd appreciate any thoughts on > why it might not be working: > > *snip* > > define host { > host_name flscrb234srvsw5 > use Network-Switches > alias 4948-5 - B234 > address 10.100.0.45 > } > > define host { > host_name flscrb234srvsw6 > use Network-Switches > alias 4948-6 - B234 > address 10.100.0.46 > } > ... > *snip* > > define host { > host_name aten > use Linux-Servers > alias Aten (SLES) > address 10.1.80.3 > parents flscrb234srvsw5 > } > ... > define host { > host_name delos > use Linux-Servers > alias Delos (CentOS) > address 10.1.1.93 > parents flscrb234srvsw6 > } > > > Reading configuration data... > > Running pre-flight check on configuration data... > > *snip* > > *Checking host dependencies... > Checked 0 host dependencies.*
Host dependencies are not generated with the use of the parents directive. Specifying parents allows you to create a topology for the status map, and also to allow Nagios to detect a host as being UNREACHABLE versus DOWN, if they are a child of another host. If you want host (or service) dependencies, you must create dependency objects: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/dependencies.html -Zack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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