bind nagios server to a certain IP

[Giles Coochey]

>The host already has a default route.

Hi Greg,

What I mean to say is if you have one IP for cluster communications
(without a default route) and another IP (your roaming IP for nagios
which has the default route). You can implement this with a second
interface card or subinterface and existing interface using dot1q
encapsulation, if your switch infrastructure supports it, for which you
do not assign a default route. You do this on both servers for the
specific reason of checking that nagios is running on both hosts. It's
simply a management interface.

If your passive system(s) detect that the active nagios host is
experiencing problems (which you can do in a number of ways with both
local and remote checks on the secondary IP address) it can take on the
role of the active by reconfiguring the primary interface card with the
IP of the failed device.

Thanks

Giles

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Greg 
> Cope
> Sent: 17 July 2006 16:43
> To: nagios
> Subject: [Nagios-users] bind nagios server to a certain IP
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Is it possible to get a nagios server to bind to an IP?
> 
> Searching seems to reveal no config for this.
> 
> I want to get nagios to use one IP on a cluster so that the other host
> (active-passive) can take it over in the event of a failure.
> 
> This also means I can move the IP to any other host with out having to

> re-configure all the clients.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> greg
> 
> 
> 
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