[Nagiosplug-help] check via MAC adress

[Alex Dehaini]

Nagios uses an IP address to communicate with the device. I will still like
to know the environment where you can't use IP but MAC

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Alex Dehaini wrote:
>
>> There has to be a corresponding MAC to IP match. What environment allows
>> you use only MAC without IPs?
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:12 AM, <jendan at tiscali.cz <mailto:
>> jendan at tiscali.cz>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hello, I want to monitor AP but i donŽt know IP adress, only MAC.
>>    Can I monit if it is alive only with MAC?? some ping or snmp or
>>    some check??
>>
>>    How will be the command looks like??
>>
>>    many thanks
>>
>>    Jan
>>    jendan at tiscali.cz <mailto:jendan at tiscali.cz>
>>
>>  Technically not really you could just ping it knowing only it's arp
> address using arping2.
>
> I'd suggest writing a plugin around this. I can't see the wider benefit
> though unless it is common to
> have devices that you want to check that don't have an ip address... it
> almost doesn't make sense
> in most normal usage since you usually need an IP on a host to get service
> from it.
>
> This AP seems to be a special case. Alternatively perhaps you could just
> plug in a wifi interface and then have a test that pings a host on the wired
> network to check the wifi?
>
> -h
>
> --
> Hari Sekhon
>
>


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Alex Dehaini
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