nagios host file question

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Guillermo Padilla
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 2:04 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] nagios host file question
> 
> Is there a way to have nagios use dns host file instead of its own
host
> file to detect hosts ips?

Use a resolvable host name for the host address.

define host{
        use                     generic-host
        host_name               some-name
        alias                   My Test Server
        address                 test.foo.com
        }

As long as test.foo.com is resolvable by command line utilities it
should just work. This of course makes you dependent on that name
resolution service for your monitoring to work properly. If it fails,
your monitoring fails.

--
Marc


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