Hosts with dynamic IP addresses

[Jim Avery]

2009/5/5 Ken Tang <kentang at berkeley.edu>:
> I'd like to monitor a few user laptops in our environment.  They use
> wireless so they often get dynamic IP addresses.  Is there a way that
> Nagios can accept any connections, or, a range of addresses for a host?
> I don't have control of the DHCP server so I cannot assign a fixed IP
> address.

I would have the laptops send passive checks back to Nagios.  You can
use nsca if you have your own plugins or use NSClient++ which is also
capable of sending results to Nagios via nsca.

hth,

Jim

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