Definig Host with multiple Interfaces

[Thom Smith]

Nagios seems to define the host by the IP address and this becomes
frustrating for routers and VPN concentrators.  But there are several
ways to overcome it.  The first is to use SNMP to retrieve the
information.  The drawback to this is that you can't take a different
route to get to the device (i.e.  you'll always traverse the VPN tunnel,
etc.).  The way I get around this is to define a different
check_<favorite-command-here> commands in the etc/checkcommands.cfg file
and hard code the IP address.  It's a kluge, but it works and keeps the
extra hosts off of the host map (**MAJOR** requirement of the
pointy-haired-boss).

HTH

Thom.

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 06:04, Michael Hüttig wrote:
> Hi,
> is there an ability, to define a host with a lot of interfaces, like a router 
> or a firewall? 
> Our defaultGW-routers had 8 * E3, 8*ISDN-BRI, 4 ETH-Interfaces and i don't want to define 12 Hosts, our firewall has 9 eth-interfaces, so it's a little 
> bit stupid, do define them all as single hosts.



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