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Thanks - that gave me exactly the right things to look at.

I don't know how I missed hostdependency.

I have a network which is connected to the Internet. Nagios server 'a' is connected to switch 'b' is connected to firewall 'c' is connected to ADSL router 'd' etc. It is easy to set the parents for these devices. But I also have a VPN to another site. Nagios server 'a' is connected to switch 'b' is ...

Thanks for the confirmation that I haven't missed anything, and using option 1 is probably correct when only using the Nagios tool-set. I have spent a couple of hours updating my configuration, to create template hosts and use of those templates with different parents on each Nagios server, and that...

Hi, I cannot imagine this is not normal - I have a small network to monitor, but it spans the country with a VPN. The background to my question is that I have a Nagios server at each end of the network, so that I can continue to monitor the state of the services at each end even when the VPN is down...