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Monitoring : Parenting
   
Parenting
Parenting in op5 Monitor is used to determine whether a host is down or unreachable.
A host is...
down if the host is the first one it can not reach in the “tree”
unreachable if the host is after the host described above.
 
Example 1 This example describes how the parenting works in practice
The picture below shows how a network looks like from the monitor servers point of view.
As you can se everything starts with the op5-monitor server. If fw-01 is down, as shown in the picture above, all child hosts of fw-01 is considered as unreachable.
 
The example above shows that you can use parenting to exclude a lot of unnecessary alerts and notifications. This because you can tell op5 Monitor not to send any notifications for a host that is unreachable. That means you will only get notification about fw-01 in this case, not the hosts “below” fw-01.