multiple host names per host

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Brandon Gillespie wrote:

> Is it possible or planned to be possible to have mulitple host names 
> allowed per host?  In our environment we ALWAYS use service names, so a 
> host will have the base host name 'musashi' on one IP address, but will 
> have three or four other service addresses, with things like 'www', 
> 'apps' etc.  I dont like having to create seperate host entries for each 
> one--they are, afterall, on the same host.  perhaps instead of 
> host_name, a host_names=musashi,www,apps or some such would work.  This 
> way in services I can direct http tests to the www service address, and 
> some other test against the apps address, and system level tests against 
> the base nodename address.
> 
> -Brandon Gillespie
> 

No - use the base host name for the host definition

define new commands that take one of the ARGx macros instead of the HOSTADDRESS macro

defines service checks of the host using the ARGx macro to pass the 
appropriate address.

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-sg



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