Phil: "multiple interfaces"

[Phil Dibowitz]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:39:54AM +0200, Michael Arndt wrote:
> Hello Phil
> 
> > My question is -- what is everyone ELSE doing? I can't be the first person
> > using nagios to have multiple interfaces on my servers...
> 
> > Phil Dibowitz
> 
> 
> short time ago i posted the same qustion, without a conclusive
> result. 
> 
> For the time being we declare the additional interfaces 
> as separate hosts and group them as hostgroup
> 
> drawback as summarized very clear in a previous answer from somebody
> to your mail:
> 
> you get a clear structure in the nagios config this way, 
> but the ergonomy of nagios GUI is "reduced" due to overloading
> ( 700 hosts instead of about 150 in our case)
> 
> now we rethink, if we "wrap" all plugins, like also suggested in
> a previous mail, to reduce the number of hosts in the GUI.
> 
> Reason for our first selection:
>  
> we have not unique sets of interfaces offering services, getting full 
> monitoring  and  "just pingable" interfaces.

I have talked it over with some other people using Nagios, and we've decided
to just add an extra "ping" service for each extra interface, and that's it.
One host entry per host.

-- 
Phil Dibowitz
Systems Architect and Administrator
Enterprise Infrastructure / ISD / USC
UCC 174 - 213-821-5427

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