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[Andreas Ericsson]

Marc Powell wrote:
> toussaint bouss <mailto:tbouss at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> 
>>hi,
>>
>>i need your help for the followings problems:
>>
>>1- is it necessary to enter host's ip addresses to be discovered by
>>nagios; can't we use only the network id (e.g:192.168.10.0/24 )
> 
> 
> Nagios does not natively support network auto discovery. The core design
> philosophy of the software negates the possibility. That being said, the
> nmap2nagios addon available at http://www.nagios.org/download/extras.php
> may be useful to you. It's not something I've used but it appears that
> it can be used to emulate that behavior.
>  
> 
>>2- what can i do for those hosts with dhcp adresses?
> 
> 
> Reconsider why hosts that are running services important enough to
> monitor are using DHCP. If DHCP is still a must for you then depending
> on the OS of the host you want to monitor you would have the best
> results sending passive checks from the host in question to your Nagios
> server and using freshness checking to verify they're coming in
> regularly. A unix based host would of course offer the greatest
> flexibility but you could probably do the same with a windows machine
> either via cygwin or using send_nsca_win32 possibly.
> 

Or you can configure your DHCP server to lock an IP to a MAC-address on 
the server in question (at least with unix dhcpd). Static addressing 
with DHCP settings (really silly, but sort of cute anyways).

-- 
Sourcerer / Andreas Ericsson
OP5 AB
+46 (0)733 709032
andreas.ericsson at op5.se


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