Resolve IP address

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Tue Mar 23 19:58:16 CET 2004


On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Rineer, Scott R. wrote:

> 
> 
> I have been looking in the FAQ and Google all day for this (and the
> Docs)
> 
> Can Nagios use name resolution to find a host or does it have to use an
> IP address ?
> 
> Ex: if I want to monitor a Workstation PC.  Its IP address is going to
> change on the next boot (DHCP)
> 
> 

yes - you can put hostnames in address field of the host definition.


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-sg



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