check_ping to monitor all IP's of a firewall

asam30 at gmail.com asam30 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 10:08:06 CET 2009


that worked like a charm!!!

you are correct, I was using -H <hostname> as a argument..

Thanks!!!!!



On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Kevin Keane <subscription at kkeane.com> wrote:

> I can only guess, but it sounds as if all the service checks are still
> using check_ping instead of your new command check_ping_ip. Either that,
> or check_ping_ip is misdefined; make sure that the argument to -H in
> your command is $ARG1$, not the host IP address.
>
> You may want to turn on logging and check the Nagios log files to see
> what commands are actually being issued.
>
> asam30 at gmail.com wrote:
> > Kevin,
> >
> > I did what you suggested, now I can one hostname and underneath I can
> > see services as ping_1, ping_2,..... to monitor other ips in the same
> > host/device. this looks kool. But I tried to shut down one server that
> > relates to the IP ( i added my test server IP here to check), I can
> > still see that the host's IP is up and running in Nagios. And when I
> > down the actual hostname ie Prod-firewall all the services related to
> > that host were down.
> >
> > It looks the solution you gave me is not working. Any idea?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Kevin Keane <subscription at kkeane.com
> > <mailto:subscription at kkeane.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     You can do the same thing in services as you did in hosts. First,
> >     define
> >     a new check command in commands.cfg:
> >
> >     # 'check_ping_ip' command definition
> >     define command{
> >            command_name    check_ping_ip
> >            command_line    $USER1$/check_ping -H $ARG1$ -w $ARG2$ -c
> >     $ARG3$
> >     -p 5
> >            }
> >
> >     And then add the services you need:
> >
> >     define host {
> >         host_name Prod-firewall
> >         use generic-switch
> >         address xx.xx.xx.40
> >         hostgroups firewall
> >     }
> >
> >     define service {
> >        host_name Prod-firewall
> >        service_Description Ping_1
> >        use generic-service
> >        check_period       24x7
> >        notification-interval 240
> >        notification_period 24x7
> >        check_command check_ping_ip!xx.xx.xx.40!3000.0,80%!5000.0,100%
> >     }
> >
> >
> >     define service {
> >        host_name Prod-firewall
> >        service_Description Ping_1
> >        use generic-service
> >        check_period       24x7
> >        notification-interval 240
> >        notification_period 24x7
> >        check_command check_ping_ip!xx.xx.xx.41!3000.0,80%!5000.0,100%
> >     }
> >
> >     and so on
> >
> >     asam30 at gmail.com <mailto:asam30 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >     > Hi,
> >     >
> >     > I've a question on how to monitor multiple IP's of a firewall
> device
> >     > using check_ping in Nagios. Example, I have a firewall
> >     (prod-fireall)
> >     > has 6 ip's associated with it so in host.cfg i should do like this
> >     >
> >     > define host{
> >     >           host_name       Prod-firewall-0
> >     >           use             generic-switch
> >     >           address         xx.xx.xx.40
> >     >           hostgroups      firewall
> >     >           }
> >     >
> >     > define host{
> >     >           host_name       Prod-firewall-1
> >     >           use             generic-switch
> >     >           address         xx.xx.xx.41
> >     >           hostgroups      firewall
> >     >           }
> >     > define host{
> >     >           host_name       Prod-firewall-2
> >     >           use             generic-switch
> >     >           address         xx.xx.xx.42
> >     >           hostgroups      firewall
> >     >           }
> >     > like I need to assign different hostname per each ip address but in
> >     > the nagios interface, this looks a long list of host name that
> >     we dont
> >     > want to have. Is there any way that I can have a single hostname
> >     > showing in nagios interface and that should monitor all IPs
> >     associated
> >     > with it?
> >     >
> >
>
>
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