check_ping to monitor all IP's of a firewall

[Marouane HIMDI]

You should do as Kevin suggested or you can define one service that check if
all interfaces of the firewall are up (there are many plugins which address
this issue)


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-----Message d'origine-----
De : Kevin Keane [mailto:subscription at kkeane.com] 
Envoyé : jeudi 5 mars 2009 09:57
Cc : Nagios Users Mailinglist
Objet : Re: [Nagios-users] check_ping to monitor all IP's of a firewall

You can do the same thing in services as you did in hosts. First, define 
a new check command in commands.cfg:

# 'check_ping_ip' command definition
define command{
        command_name    check_ping_ip
        command_line    $USER1$/check_ping -H $ARG1$ -w $ARG2$ -c $ARG3$ 
-p 5
        }

And then add the services you need:

define host {
     host_name Prod-firewall
     use generic-switch
     address xx.xx.xx.40
     hostgroups firewall
}

define service {
    host_name Prod-firewall
    service_Description Ping_1
    use generic-service
    check_period       24x7
    notification-interval 240
    notification_period 24x7
    check_command check_ping_ip!xx.xx.xx.40!3000.0,80%!5000.0,100%
}


define service {
    host_name Prod-firewall
    service_Description Ping_1
    use generic-service
    check_period       24x7
    notification-interval 240
    notification_period 24x7
    check_command check_ping_ip!xx.xx.xx.41!3000.0,80%!5000.0,100%
}

and so on

asam30 at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a question on how to monitor multiple IP's of a firewall device 
> using check_ping in Nagios. Example, I have a firewall (prod-fireall) 
> has 6 ip's associated with it so in host.cfg i should do like this
>
> define host{
>           host_name       Prod-firewall-0
>           use             generic-switch
>           address         xx.xx.xx.40
>           hostgroups      firewall
>           }
>
> define host{
>           host_name       Prod-firewall-1
>           use             generic-switch
>           address         xx.xx.xx.41
>           hostgroups      firewall
>           }
> define host{
>           host_name       Prod-firewall-2
>           use             generic-switch
>           address         xx.xx.xx.42
>           hostgroups      firewall
>           }
> like I need to assign different hostname per each ip address but in 
> the nagios interface, this looks a long list of host name that we dont 
> want to have. Is there any way that I can have a single hostname 
> showing in nagios interface and that should monitor all IPs associated 
> with it?
>
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