bind nagios server to a certain IP

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Greg Cope wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 11:14 -0400, Morris, Patrick wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf
> > > Of Greg Cope
> > > Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 7:43 AM
> > > 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.
> >
> > Nagios itself doesn't bind to an IP address.  What do you want to bind
> > to the IP?
>
> I've set allowed_hosts in nrpe.conf - so the clients will only accept
> checks from a certain IP.
>
> This is the IP I am trying to get nrpe checks bound to.

Sounds like you are in need of post-route packet mangling. Time to hit the
iptables manuals and setup a custome ruleset to rewrite the addresses as
needed.

Hugo.

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