multiple host names per host
Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]
jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com
Fri Jan 24 23:06:46 CET 2003
The solution is to skip the 'address' definition in the host declaration,
and leverage hostname/alias entries using either /etc/hosts or DNS.
jc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Gillespie [mailto:gillespie at iomega.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:35 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] multiple host names per host
>
>
> Is it possible or planned to be possible to have mulitple host names
> allowed per host? In our environment we ALWAYS use service
> names, so a
> host will have the base host name 'musashi' on one IP
> address, but will
> have three or four other service addresses, with things like 'www',
> 'apps' etc. I dont like having to create seperate host
> entries for each
> one--they are, afterall, on the same host. perhaps instead of
> host_name, a host_names=musashi,www,apps or some such would
> work. This
> way in services I can direct http tests to the www service
> address, and
> some other test against the apps address, and system level
> tests against
> the base nodename address.
>
> -Brandon Gillespie
>
>
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