A forum search would have found: http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?t=7939&highlight=depend http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?t=8184&highlight=depend http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?t=8275&highlight=depend ... This discusses the layer 3 dependencies Zenoss does have, and provides a tool to help debug it: http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?t=6761 -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University
kaidol wrote, On 1/30/2009 8:11 AM: > Situation description: have a number of hosts - some behind VPN. Zenoss is > monitoring hosts and services etc. Every time the VPN goes down (and it > happens occasionally because of a buggy VPN solution) I get 40+ messages for > ALL hosts and services behind VPN. Very annoying, since I forward the > messages to my phone as SMS-es! > > Now I recall from the days of playing with Nagios that there could be defined > relations like "A depends on B", which meant that if B fails, then it is > obvious, that A cannot be functional and there was no extra message for > things behind B. So as to the above example, I'd define the VPN gw as the > upstream dependency for the hosts behind VPN and then would get only messages > for it going down when it happens. But NOT for every host/service behind VPN. > > Does something like this exist in Zenoss? > If not, could it be made to be a feature, please? :) > Or, if dependencies/hierarcies is too big a bite, could there be a way of > summarizing messages when forwarding? Something like "host down, 10 services > on it too"? > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=30691#30691 > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
