On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 17:56 +0200, Giles Coochey wrote: > >Thanks Giles. > > > >The host already runs linux heartbeat, and is in an > >active-passive ha cluster running bind, ldap and dhcpd. > >I wanted to add nagios to the mix. When setting this > >up it is usual to give each app a VIP address, and > >configure that on the active host. > > > >As I have configured nrpe clients to only allow checks > >from one IP - the nrpe checks needs to come from that > >IP address. > > Well the short answer is nagios will run it's checks from the Interface > which is most suited to be the route to that host.
Yes - that's what I realised. So my only choice is to either remove the allow host constraint on nrpe, or to add more IP's to it. I suppose either is roughly the same amount of work. > Under Linux, with iptables patches, it *may* be possible to mark packets > coming from a particular process and have them processed in their own ip > routing table. This is a complicated set up however, and I get the > impression that you're looking for an easier solution. Done that before - but I do not want to start playing with firewall rules just for this. Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
