check_ping to monitor all IP's of a firewall

[Kevin Keane]

I can only guess, but it sounds as if all the service checks are still 
using check_ping instead of your new command check_ping_ip. Either that, 
or check_ping_ip is misdefined; make sure that the argument to -H in 
your command is $ARG1$, not the host IP address.

You may want to turn on logging and check the Nagios log files to see 
what commands are actually being issued.

asam30 at gmail.com wrote:
> Kevin,
>
> I did what you suggested, now I can one hostname and underneath I can 
> see services as ping_1, ping_2,..... to monitor other ips in the same 
> host/device. this looks kool. But I tried to shut down one server that 
> relates to the IP ( i added my test server IP here to check), I can 
> still see that the host's IP is up and running in Nagios. And when I 
> down the actual hostname ie Prod-firewall all the services related to 
> that host were down.
>
> It looks the solution you gave me is not working. Any idea?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Kevin Keane <subscription at kkeane.com 
> <mailto:subscription at kkeane.com>> wrote:
>
>     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 <mailto: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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