distributed monitoring - same named hosts?

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

I found the RFC, in case anyone's interested:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1178.html

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] 
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 11:39 AM
> To: Marc Powell; walk2137 at bellsouth.net;
> nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] distributed monitoring - same named hosts?
> 
> 
> That's one way of doing it.  Another way would be to set up
> different DNS zones.  Same hostname, different subdomain.
> Although I must admit that naming a host based on a primary
> function isn't always ideal.  Better off with hostnames
> which are more loosely coupled.  Themes work well, like
> Disney character names, or Star Trek character names, or
> Simpsons character names... you get the idea.
> 
> Somewhere there's an RFC which gives recommendations for
> naming hosts.
> 
> jc
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Powell [mailto:mpowell at ena.com]
> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 1:47 PM
> To: walk2137 at bellsouth.net; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] distributed monitoring - same named hosts?
> 
> 
> I would suggest coming up with a standard naming convention 
> that incorporates location.
> 
> Mail-bna, mail-sfo (airport codes)
> Mail-nash, mail-sanf (first 4 of city)
> 
> We mostly monitor routers in schools and use the following --
> 
> Mcgavock-hs.davidson.tn
> 
> That can easily be enhacned by prepending with a device type
> 
> Mail.mcgavock-hs.davidson.tn
> 
> 
> --
> Marc
> 
> Sent from a very tiny wireless device with a very tiny unlit keyboard.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin C. Walker <walk2137 at bellsouth.net>
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
> <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Sun Jun 29 13:23:59 2003
> Subject: [Nagios-users] distributed monitoring - same named hosts?
> 
> How do you deal with same named hosts in a distributed monitoring
> environment?
> 
> e.g. suppose I have a local nagios "sensor" at each of 
> several different
> remote sales offices.  they use nsca to send the data back to the
> central server.  Each office has a server called "mail".  What are the
> various methods y'all are using to manage this situation and avoid
> confusion.
> 
> Is there a $MACRO$ that identifies the nagios host the 
> service check was
> executed FROM?
> 
> 
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