nagios / apan config prob

[Tedman Eng]

The default APAN scripts are set up to use HOSTNAME, which requires a DNS
lookup every time the plugin is called.  I discovered this when our internal
DNS server went down, and our apan plugins stopped working.  The normal
nagios plugins use the host address, so what I did was modify APAN to use
the host address as well.

Here's what to do:

Modify apan.sh to include "HOSTADDRESS":
----------------------------------------------------------------
#Read arguments from the command-line
CHECK=$1
HOST=$2
HOSTADDRESS=$3
SVCNAME=$4
TIME=$5
WARN=$6
CRIT=$7


Modify your check_command.cfg definition to include "HOSTADDRESS":
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# 'apan' command definition
define command {
        command_name    apan
        command_line    /usr/local/nagios/apan/apan.sh $ARG1$ $HOSTNAME$
$HOSTADDRESS$ $SERVICEDESC$ $TIMET$ $ARG2$ $ARG3$
}


Modify each plugin in $NAGIOS/apan/plugs to use HOSTADDRESS instead of HOST
----------------------------------------------------------------
(just search for HOST and replace with HOSTADDRESS in each plugin script)



"Matthew Wilson" <matthewwilson at dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:1061314372.4156.1.camel at localhost.localdomain...
> Hmmm, thanks. I guess that would work but it is just one extra step when
> adding hosts, which I have a lot of (and more are added on a frequent
> basis)
> Matthew
>
> On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 18:25, David Clack wrote:
> > Have you put the host in your /etc/hosts file?
> > I had the same problem and this cured it.
> > Good luck.
> > Dave.
> >
>
>
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