running checks on a specific network interface

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Albert Spruyt [mailto:appie at procolix.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 3:17 AM
> To: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-devel] running checks on a specific network interface
> 
> we are currently changing nagios servers (machine and nagios version).
> The new machine has 2 network interfaces  as well as 3 virtual ones.
> Is there an easy ( or a not so easy one) way to get the traffic from
the
> nagios checks onto a specific network interface?(like the apache
> listen:*.*.*.*:** directive) If no-one  seems interested please point
me
> in the right direction. could it be done with  a wrapper script?
> or would it mean changing all the checks? or has it already been
> implemented?
> it would allow me in the future to change nagios to a diffrent server
> whithout much hassle.
> ( we like our servers that way ;) )


This is standard routing, controlled by your OS. All checks will go out
the interface specified as your default route unless you have more
specific routes set up. All programs have very little control over how
their outbound traffic is routed. If they did, they would have to be
aware of the state of the network to avoid routing deficiencies...

--
Marc





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