multiple host names per host

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

The solution is to skip the 'address' definition in the host declaration,
and leverage hostname/alias entries using either /etc/hosts or DNS.

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Gillespie [mailto:gillespie at iomega.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:35 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] multiple host names per host
> 
> 
> Is it possible or planned to be possible to have mulitple host names 
> allowed per host?  In our environment we ALWAYS use service 
> names, so a 
> host will have the base host name 'musashi' on one IP 
> address, but will 
> have three or four other service addresses, with things like 'www', 
> 'apps' etc.  I dont like having to create seperate host 
> entries for each 
> one--they are, afterall, on the same host.  perhaps instead of 
> host_name, a host_names=musashi,www,apps or some such would 
> work.  This 
> way in services I can direct http tests to the www service 
> address, and 
> some other test against the apps address, and system level 
> tests against 
> the base nodename address.
> 
> -Brandon Gillespie
> 
> 
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