Monitoring hosts and DHCP

[Matt Lozier]

Hi Benny,

Yes, I'm using WINS.  We have a simple LAN here, nothing fancy.

I think that my best bet is having my DCHP daemon reserve a given IP for
each host.

Thanks for your help and suggestions -- much appreciated!

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-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of C. Bensend
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 2:40 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring hosts and DHCP


> Thank you for the reply, but unfortunately I'm not using DNS, and I don't
> want to have to :-)
>
> Just want to know if there is a way to monitor hosts that obtain their IP
> address via DHCP.
>
> I'll continue to see what I can do with this, and will reply to the list
> if
> I find a solution.

Ummmmmm...  So how do you access the hosts, if they're switching
IPs on you and you're not using DNS?  Do you just rely on WINS or
something?

You could set up passive checks, and have the DHCPized machines
*send* you the test results, that way Nagios wouldn't have to have
some way of addressing them.  I *think* that would work?  I've
never tried it.

Benny


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