As far as I can tell, Zenoss doesn't do DNS lookups after you initially add a device, so it wouldn't notice the change to new IPs, and would mark everything as down. There was a forum thread several months ago about getting more dynamic DNS lookups. -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University
chduncan wrote, On 2/20/2009 12:37 AM: > We are about to re ip address our entire network, some 500 nodes. I will be > monitoring those 500 nodes before we begin the re ip addressing project. > > I was wondering how Zenoss will react when it sees the same Hostname for a > device but different IP address on the interfaces? > > I assume after we change the IP address then Zenoss will mark then node. > Which basically leaves me with manually removing the devices that were on the > old ip addressing schema then letting auto discovery locate the new IP > address thus pretty much rebuilding the device database correct? > > I guess I could just bulk load from file the new IP addressing to be modeled. > > However I would loose any historical event and performance information this > way. Correct? > > Any suggestions on how best to handle this re ip project and still keep the > information in Zenoss available and useful? > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=31544#31544 > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
