Checking DHCP

Casey Allen Shobe casey at shobe.info
Fri Jan 29 05:18:49 CET 2010


On Jan 14, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Marc Powell wrote:
> There's a check_dhcp plugin in the standard plugins to verify that a  
> DHCP server his handing out leases. You need to run it from a host  
> on the LAN that your DHCP server answers on. In most cases you  
> cannot run this plugin on the DHCP server itself as they are most  
> often configured *not* to give answers to themselves. If you're  
> limited to running something on the DHCP server itself, you'll  
> likely only be able to look to see if the DHCP process/service is  
> running. How that's done depends on the OS of the server and how you  
> can get to it from the Nagios machine.


If I wanted to configure this to appear in a host named "network" that  
represents broadcast network services not tied to a particular host,  
what would I need to set check_host_command to so that nothing  
actually runs to check the "host"?  Or where else would this be  
appropriate?

Cheers,
-- 
Casey Allen Shobe
casey at shobe.info


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