MAC Address of Hosts

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Creighton Long
> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 12:06 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] MAC Address of Hosts
> 
> I'm trying to monitor a lab of dual-boot machines that frequently
change
> hostnames. The FAQ suggests that a MAC address can be specified for a
host
>
(http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=146&expand=true&showdesc=
fa
> lse). I didn't have any success. Has anyone done this before or have
any
> suggestions? Thanks for the help!

To re-word the FAQ, Nagios just passes the value of host_address to the
plugin without any manipulation or interpretation. That means that the
plugin that you are using must understand and be able to use the value
that is being provided to it. None of the standard plugins use MAC
address as an addressing mechanism that I am aware of. You would need to
write (and contribute =)) a suitable plugin that accepted a MAC address
as an argument and did something useful with it. I am not aware of any
pre-existing plugins that do this.

--
Marc


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