Check_Ping Problem for multiple addresses for a host

[Barbara Böhm]

Am Freitag, 23. April 2004 15:46 schrieb Marc Powell:
> Barbara Böhm <mailto:barbara.boehm at net-man.at> wrote:
> > I have a server who has multiple IP-Addresses in the Nagios FAQ is
> > described, that you only have to seperate them in the host.cfg  by
> > putting a  << , >> komma between those two Ip addresses! but that
> > doesn't work anyway!
> > if I  try to view the host details, the server wich is specified to
> > two addresses is down but if you ping it manually its up!
> > and thats a very big problem for us, because we have some  servers
> > with multiple ip addresses specified
> >
> >
> > check_ping: Invalid host name/address - 10.1.1.X,10.1.1.X
> >
> >
> > my host.cfg:
> >
> >
> > define host {
> > 		use		Server
> >
> > 		host_name	XXX
> > 		alias			XXX-Server
> > 		address		10.1.1.X,10.1.1.X
> > 		}
> >
> > and now if i only specify one address the server always seems to be up
>
> You should search the list archives but multiple IP support for check_ping
> is a new thing and only supported by plugins 1.4.0alpha1 I believe. Nagios
> just passes whatever is specified to the plugin. It's up to the plugin to
> know how to interpret host_name properly.
>
> --
> Marc
>
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Thank you for your help...i can solve my problem with the new plugins...

Barbara Boehm


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