DHCP hosts

[Morris, Patrick]

G. S. Marzot wrote:
> Thank you for the pointer to this cool plugin...
>
> Unfortunately no solutions to date really fill the bill as the leases 
> are allocated by a router that does not publish them in a way I know how 
> to get... nor can I put anything on the DHCP hosts... they are not under 
> my control...
>
> Maybe there is a way to hack into my router and get the lease info... or 
> maybe I need a little daemon that will just go and probe for all 
> possible hosts... I would just like to see an accurate depiction of who 
> is on the net at any given time... maybe this is not something nagios is 
> good at (i.e., dynamic host groups).

Nagios is good at what it does, and it really sounds like this just 
isn't it.

However, I don't see a reason you couldn't hack together a really simple 
check using a tool that *is* good at this sort of thing (like, say, 
nmap), and based on the results of that tool, feed the results back to 
Nagios .

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