greetz, i have successfully installed nagios-2.0b4p0-chroot and its related packages, nagios-plugins-1.4.1 and nagios-web-2.0b4-chroot, on my home firewall/VPN gateway that's running openbsd-3.8 release. i'm starting simple and doing a check_ping on all my local machines (10.9.0/24 and 10.9.1/24 subnets), which is working great and i can see their status under the nagios web interface. now that i have check_ping working for my local machines, i want to do the same for hosts at my remote location (10.0.0/24 and 10.0.1./24 subnets) that are under the same VPN.
however, i am not able to check_ping for 10.0.0.1, the remote VPN gateway, even though i'm able to ping it from my home VPN gateway. since my home VPN gateway has both a public IP, x.y.z.w, and a private IP, 10.9.0.1, i have to issue a "ping -I 10.9.0.1 10.0.0.1" to ping the remote VPN gateway via the VPN, otherwise the interface address transmitted falls outside my VPN subnet (10.9/16) and the ping doesn't get routed through the VPN. i changed the ping_syntax variable in cgi.cfg from "/bin/ping -n -c 5 $HOSTADDRESS$" to "/bin/ping -I 10.9.0.1 -n -c 5 $HOSTADDRESS$" to try to remedy the problem, but it hasn't done the trick. just to be clear, here is an text rendering of the situation: ######################### ############################# # home VPN gw # # work VPN gw # # pub. IP = x.y.z.w #--internet----# pub. IP = a.b.c.d # # priv. IP = 10.9.0.1 # # priv. IP = 10.0.0.1 # # VPN for 10.9/16 # # VPN for 10.0/16 # ######################### ############################# am i not supposed to run nagios on such a gateway? i could move it to another machine behind the gateway at home, but i would rather not for computing resource reasons. any suggestions on how to successfully check_ping in this situation would be appreciated. thx for reading. cheers, jake ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
