Devices with more than one address

[Jesse Reynolds]

Oh, indeed, should one specify the primary interface as the Parent 
Host for each secondary interface host?

Jesse


At 22:25 +1100 28/11/2002, Jesse Reynolds wrote:
>Subhendu, I don't think this would work, because you can't specify 
>an IP address  for a service. So if you have multiple IP numbers on 
>the one host I think you have to set it up as multiple hosts if you 
>want Nagios to monitor each IP address.
>
>It would seem sensible to me to be able to specify IP addresses for 
>services, OR be able to define primary interfaces of hosts and 
>virtual interfaces.
>
>For example:
>
>We have a host called dodo with IP address 10.0.0.1
>dodo has a virtual interface called www1 with IP address 10.0.0.2 
>and an instance of Apache web server running on it.
>dodo has a second virtual interface called www2 with IP address 
>10.0.0.3 which has a second, separate instance of Apache web server 
>running on it.
>
>We want to be able to monitor these two apache servers independently 
>of each other, as well as any services running on dodo's primary 
>interface. But if the box goes down, we want Nagios to realise that 
>this is the one box and only send one message about the host going 
>offline, not three messages (one for each interface).
>
>Perhaps this can be implemented by setting up three hosts and then 
>setting up some dependencies?
>
>Regards
>
>Jesse
>
>
>
>From: Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh at sg...>
>Re: Devices with more than one address
>2002-11-24 11:19
>
>   On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Rafael F Suguiura wrote:
>
>  > Hi everyone,
>  > When monitoring a device with more than one address/port/interface (a
>  > router) is there a way to represent the device as only one?
>  > Today each interface/IP is defined as a different device.
>  > Is there a way to do it???
>  >   Thanks a lot.
>  >   Rafael.
>  > Brasilia, Brasil
>
>Install the "closest" interface as the HOST address and all other
>  interfaces as services for the same host.
>
>  -sg
>
>
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