Hosts with dynamic IP addresses

[Andreas Ericsson]

Ken Tang wrote:
> 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. 
> 

There is no way nagios can accept a range of ip-addresses for a host,
since it wouldn't know which of the presumably multiple hosts in the
range is responding to what.

Since you don't have control over the DHCP server, following Jim Avery's
advice and letting the laptops send passive check-results to your nagios
server is definitely the best solution.

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