host check through 2 isps simultaneously
Ethan Galstad
nagios at nagios.org
Wed Nov 20 02:47:43 CET 2002
You can't use arguments in host check command like you can in service
check commands (this will likely change in future versions). Using
the $HOSTADDRESS$ macro in the host check command definition should
do the trick though.
On 19 Nov 2002 at 10:47, Atul Gosain wrote:
>
> Yes , I have allready made a script that takes 2 ip addresses and then
> returns status based on the status of checks through both addresses. But
> when i tried to give the arguements from check_comand in host definition
> (check_multiple_ips!192.168.1.100,192.168.1.2), it gave errors and
> nagios did not start. Only after i put the arguements in checkcomand
> definition of that command ,it worked.
> Cant we give arguements from the checkcommand in host definition whereas
> we can give them in service definitions.
>
> Ethan Galstad wrote:
>
> >Actually, Nagios doesn't care what kind of address you specify for
> >the host. Nagios simply treats it as a string and passes it off the
> >plugins for their use. There's nothing stopping anyone from putting
> >a MAC address in that field, multiple IP addresses, GPS coordinates,
> >or text directions on where to find the server. :-)
> >
> >You could set the address field to be "192.168.1.2,192.168.0.5" to
> >indicate that the host had two IPs. Your host check command (and
> >service plugins) would then have to properly parse the address field
> >to pick out the individual addresses to be checked.
> >
> >
> >
> >On 17 Nov 2002 at 23:14, Sean Knox wrote:
> >
> >>Currently, you can only define (1) IP address per host definition. To
> >>sastify your situation, you can define two hosts with the two IPs you
> >>want to monitor (one for each ISP). Then define host and service
> >>dependencies for each host and ping service to be dependent on the
> >>corresponding IP address/host.
> >>
> >>Sean
> >>
> >>Atul Gosain wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi
> >>>
> >>>I have the network of my company thats connected through two isp's. I
> >>>m monitoring an online server which has three public ip addresses.
> >>>Now, till presently, i had 2 services of ping to check that
> >>>(check_ping_isp1 & check_ping_isp2) and routing was defined for them
> >>>ie. check_ping_isp1 uses one ip address which uses isp1 to check that
> >>>host and other service uses isp2 to check that host. But the check
> >>>command for the host can only monitor it through one isp only at a time.
> >>>Because of this the host is shown down if that isp has a problem
> >>>(through which host check is being done).
> >>>Can this be done, that the host is declared as down only when both
> >>>ping services are down or host can be checked through both interfaces
> >>>and declared as down only when both isps are down.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks
> >>>Atul.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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