Parent Relationship

[eddiez]

Has anyone and could someone share an example of setting up parent relationship? I am a little confused on what the parent should be in my services and hosts.

Thanks,

Ed

[BanditBBS]

For me, right now, my parenting is only setup for my network devices. The switch's parent is set to the switch it is plugged into. That way, if a higher up switch goes down, won't get alerts for the down the line stuff.

As for services, that would really depend on your environment.

[scottwilkerson]

This is exactly how most people use parents. If Nagios needs to go through a host A before it can reach host B, then it is logical that host A should be host B's parent.

This way if host A is down, it will mark host B as UNREACHABLE instead of DOWN

[eddiez]

Thanks all