Just looking for some information.. when monitoring external websites, what parent/child relationships are defined. Should the parent be the outermost device on the internal network (router or firewall). Or should it remain with the Nagios Process as is the default?
TIA for your thoughts.
Monitoring External Websites
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swolf
Re: Monitoring External Websites
Hi @rj-admin, thanks for reaching out!
Configuring parent-child relationships is always optional - they're primarily recommended for reducing notification spam. If your firewall is a single point of failure for your connection to the external site, then yes, it's prudent to set it up as the parent of the external site; if you then have a router whose malfunction could prevent nagios from connecting to the firewall, then you'd want to set that up as the parent of the firewall, etc.
Hopefully that helps - please let me know if you have any questions or need any further clarification.
-Sebastian
Configuring parent-child relationships is always optional - they're primarily recommended for reducing notification spam. If your firewall is a single point of failure for your connection to the external site, then yes, it's prudent to set it up as the parent of the external site; if you then have a router whose malfunction could prevent nagios from connecting to the firewall, then you'd want to set that up as the parent of the firewall, etc.
Hopefully that helps - please let me know if you have any questions or need any further clarification.
-Sebastian