> I'm monitoring about 30 machines using Nagios with SNMP checks. I also > have > a DHCP server casting each machine on the network their IP address on > start-up. Some machines stay on the majority of the time, others for only > 4-8 hours a day. The machines generally maintain their same IP address > over > time as DHCP is designed to try and give a machine back it's same IP, so > long as it's available. However, there have been times when a machine has > changed its IP addresses as a result of using DHCP on this LAN.
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#host Pay particular attention to the address section... You can use the hostname in place of the IP address, at the cost of doing a DNS lookup when the host is checked. Benny -- "If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little." -- George Carlin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ 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
