check_http 404 error

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lars Oeschey [mailto:extern.lars.oeschey at audi.de]
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 3:25 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] check_http 404 error
> 
> Marc Powell wrote:
> 
> > The commands _might_ not be the same. In the host definition, is
address
> > set to 'is0618' or the IP of the machine or something else entirely?
You
> 
> ok, got it... I didn't realize that nagios never uses the hostname
when
> the IP is entered as hostaddress. Changed that for some DHCP clients
as
> well now, as sooner or later those would have a problem also.

Actually, there is no if-then test as far as this is concerned. The
command definitions by default use $HOSTADDRESS$, not $HOSTNAME$,
although they could certainly be changed to use that instead. Hostname
is primarily used internally for host/service/hostgroup associations.

--
Marc



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