"service IPs" versus "host IPs"

[Tedman Eng]

You'll probably want to define a nagios host for each "service IP" and
another nagios host for the "management IP" separately, since in the end,
this is what you're doing for the physical machines as well.

Using the parents relationship (even if they're on the same box), makes it
easier to move around the services in nagios when you move services to a
different "management IP".  This also helps identify what services are
affected downstream if the physical hosts fall down.



-----Original Message-----
From: Ollie Cook [mailto:ollie at uk.clara.net]
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 10:26 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] "service IPs" versus "host IPs"


Good afternoon,

It is procedure at my place of work to distinguish between "host IPs" and
"service IPs" for the majority of our network services.

That is to say, host 'foo' may have a management IP 192.168.0.10 (its "host
IP"), but the HTTP service on that host may listen on IP 192.168.1.20 (its
"service IP").

The reason for this is to make it easy to move a service from one host to
another (by simply moving the IP address to another host).

I can't find a way of configuring Nagios (1.2) to understand this way of
distributing services. As far as I can tell, Nagios assumes that all
services
on a host will listen on the same IP address.

I expect I am missing something, but could someone please correct me if I am
wrong?

Thanks,

Ollie

-- 
Ollie Cook         Systems Architect, Claranet UK
ollie at uk.clara.net               +44 20 7685 8065


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