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But, I want Nagios to tell me that the Internet is down (because google and yahoo are unreachable) I do not want Nagios to tells me that Host XY ist down because the Internet is down. Hence I still think, that parent/child solution is not what I am searching for :-( Better would be a service on the ...

Hm, but parents are relationships between physical hosts?? Within hosts.cfg I can only define hosts with a required address Field. How can I define "My Network" as a host with the Parents Google and Yahoo %-/ (confused)? define host{ use basic-host host_name Internet alias Internet address...

Hi I'm looking for a simple solution to check the availability of my network connection. What I am trying to do is something like check_http google.com if google.com is reachable => network connection ok if google.com is not reachable => network connection down The Problem is that sometimes google.c...