distributed monitoring - same named hosts?

[Marc Powell]

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

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-----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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