nagios using wrong ip for host?

[Morris, Patrick]

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> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Hari Sekhon
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 10:30 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] nagios using wrong ip for host?
> 
> My nagios server is telling me that a host is down despite 
> also saying that a service on that host is up !!!!!!
> 
> MyServer     Oracle       OK     20-07-2006 18:23:52     0d 
> 0h 48m 44s 
>     1/3     OK - dummy login connected
>     
>                     SSH    CRITICAL     20-07-2006 18:22:26     0d 1h 
> 28m 30s     3/3     No route to host
> 
> Looking at the host status is says
> 
> MyServer    DOWN     20-07-2006 18:25:19     0d 1h 30m 54s    
>  CRITICAL 
> - Host Unreachable (192.168.1.29)
> 
> but the ip address for the server is 192.168.1.43, why is it 
> using the wrong address?????????

Your Oracle check is probably using an address from a tnsnames.ora file,
which is apparently correct.  Either your DNS, or the address in your
Nagios config, is probably not, causing the other checks to fail. 

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