Host name from IP address
Michael Jewett
mgj at unb.ca
Mon Nov 6 18:34:43 CET 2006
I don't think I explained this properly. I don't want to know the host
name (DNS), I want know the name that Nagios knows it by, from the
hosts.cfg file.
Any suggestions?
Michael
-------- Original Message --------
From: "Ben Thomas" <bthomas at journalbroadcastgroup.com>
To: "Michael Jewett" <mgj at unb.ca>, nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re:[Nagios-users] Host name from IP address
Date: Fri Nov 03 2006 15:46:36 GMT-0400 (Atlantic Standard Time)
> So if you are not looking to write a script, just use ping -a <IP> in
> windows and that will reverse dns the IP for you. Then just do a ctl +
> f in the config files.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Michael
> Jewett
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 8:46 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Host name from IP address
>
> Good morning,
>
> I was curious if anyone knows a way to find out the hostname from the
> hosts.cfg if I know the IP address.
>
> For instance I have a program that I wrote that runs on switch 1 that
> returns me an IP address of switch 2 and its status. I would then like
> the get the name from Nagios's configs for switch 2. Is this possible,
> without going through the entire hosts.cfg file? If not, has anyone
> else written something to do the similar function?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
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