Re: [Nagios-users] Parent/Child relationship for HV/VM

2012-01-04 Thread Jim Avery
On 4 January 2012 07:53, Claudio Kuenzler c...@claudiokuenzler.com wrote: I created a fake host (with IP 0.0.0.0) for the cluster with active checks and notifications disabled. This way I have one and the same parent for all VM's in that cluster. Let me show it this way: switch ---

Re: [Nagios-users] Parent/Child relationship for HV/VM

2012-01-04 Thread Chris Beattie
On 1/4/2012 5:11 AM, Jim Avery wrote: Another advantage is if you add or remove host servers to the cluster you only need to change the one host definition. You could use check_cluster as the host check for your fake host, then its status would be meaningful too. I'll have a go at doing that

[Nagios-users] Parent/Child relationship for HV/VM

2012-01-03 Thread alexus
I have few hyper-visors that running bunch of VMs. Each VM runs on a HV and can be migrated from one host to another at any given time for whatever reason(s). Should I specify all HVs (where VM can run) for each VM as a parent? -- http://alexus.org/

Re: [Nagios-users] Parent/Child relationship for HV/VM

2012-01-03 Thread Jim Avery
On 3 January 2012 20:58, alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote: I have few hyper-visors that running bunch of VMs. Each VM runs on a HV and can be migrated from one host to another at any given time for whatever reason(s). Should I specify all HVs (where VM can run) for each VM as a parent? That's

Re: [Nagios-users] Parent/Child relationship for HV/VM

2012-01-03 Thread Claudio Kuenzler
I created a fake host (with IP 0.0.0.0) for the cluster with active checks and notifications disabled. This way I have one and the same parent for all VM's in that cluster. Let me show it this way: switch --- esx1 VM-CLUSTER-1 -- VM1 | esx2 |