Configuring notifications only for a down parent.

[javid]

NagiosXI currently notifies our team for every single item that goes down on our network. We need to more appropriately configure NagiosXI to only alert us on the parents that are impacted and let us assume that the child dependencies are also impacted. This is especially problematic when we have power outages and DISTS or MDFs go down.

[cdienger]

Parent and child relationships can be configured in the CCM(Manage Parents button on the host or host template) or via the API(config/host/<hostname> endpoint. See Help > API Docs > Config Reference > Hosts. The parents option can be added.). If this has been setup then you can disable UNREACHABLE notifications(again on the host or host template) that would be sent out whenever a child is unreachable due to a parent being down.

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ility.html

[javid]

Don't see the 'Manage Parents' button in host template or anywhere under CCM. Is it something in 5.6.8 update?

[cdienger]

You'll need to add/edit a host or host template configuration to see the option.