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Hi Thank you for response. Does it mean, I can use parent directive for host to host or service to service not with host to service or service to host. If yes, please help me with any other work around since I do not want to open specific port on device(switch) just for this parent check as service....

Hi , Thank you for your response , It seems like I made a typo while pasting my config , but yes after making changes error remains same: define host{ use generic-switch host_name 1001101004 alias abc1 address XX.XX.XX.XX hostgroups abc } define hostgroup{ hostgroup_name abc alias abc1 } define serv...

Hi , Please fine answer for each of the queries: 1. Error message: --> Error: Service '1001101004' on host '1001101004' is not a valid parent for service '1001101004' on host 'Firmware Version' Looking at error , I see 1001101004 is being considered as service not host. Not sure if any specific synt...

define host{ use generic-switch host_name 1001101004 alias YYYYYY-XXXX address 71.162.157.82 hostgroups YYYYYY-XXXXZZ } define hostgroup{ hostgroup_name YYYYYY-XXXXZZ alias YYYYYY-XXXX } define service{ use generic-service hostgroup_name C16214360689-4KDBPU service_description HTTPS Port check_comma...

Hello All, I am looking to monitor services from one device which is working well as expected. However if host is not available nagios is still performing checks for all the services which should not be. I tried to use host as parent in each service however it does not seem to be working. I checked ...

Hello All, I am stuck with situation wherein I have one device to monitor but has two IP addresses. I could monitor both the IPs as an individual host, however, it is going to duplicate all the processes in my report. Hence what I am looking to achieve is as below: 1. There are two IP of device A an...

Yes , please sorry for really late response.

There's a service parent issue in 4.2.1 that was fixed in 4.2.2. Please upgrade and let us know if that resolves your issue. Thanks! Service dependency is still not working, however I used parents command and fulfils my requirement!!! Thanks a lot!!! I almost spent entire day to understand where is...

In between would you please confirm if 4.2.2 resolves issue with "parents" command as well

Thanks, will try and let you know the update