Passive service result check, using host address instead of host name

[Thomas Stocking]

Manish,
If you are using a script to submit check results to the command file on 
the Nagios host, you could use the status.log file to look up the 
hostname before you submit the result.
Another way would be to use a tool like Monarch or NagioSQL to store the 
hostnames and IPs in a MySQL DB. Then the script could use the DB 
interface to do the lookups. That would be faster, and if you are 
willing or able to allow the host that does the posting to access MySQL 
across the net, it could run on a remote system. Kind of depends on how 
you are running Nagios - with nsca/nscafe or not, and where the passive 
results are generated. I don't know if the Nagios event broker can give 
you this data directly, but if you use NDOUtils or GroundWork Foundation 
then these databases backends also store the  IP and hostname.
Monarch: http://sourceforge.net/projects/monarch/
NagiosQL http://www.nagiosql.org/wiki/Main_Page
NDOUtils: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26589
GroundWork Foundation: http://gwfoundation.sourceforge.net/
NSCAFE: 
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/AddOn_Projects.22.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1[p_view]=818

    Thomas

Manish Sapariya wrote:
> Hi All,
> Is there any way to specify the host address instead of host name when 
> reporting passive service
> check result. In my deployment I want to identify the hosts by their mac 
> address as far as nagios
> is concerned, however user should still be able to view hostname in the 
> nagios GUI.
>
> Is there any way I can tell nagios to look for host address instead of 
> host name in the passive
> check result?
>
>
> PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT
> Command Format:
> PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;<host_name>;<service_description>;<return_code>;<plugin_output> 
>
>
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Manish
>
>
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