Multiple interfaces on on host (single representation)

[Scott Greenman]

We have a similar situation but in our case we have two IPs per machine and we want to execute checks over both. The way I solved this was to put both IPs, comma-separated, into the 'address' field for the servers. I then wrapped the plugins with a script that would take the list of IPs and execute the check against each IP in turn.  This does mean that every check, including host checks, have to use the wrapper script.

For your case, using a separate variable is probably a better solution, but thought I'd just give you another option.

Scott Greenman
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From: Nick Jennings [nick at creativemotiondesign.com]
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 4:16 AM
To: Nagios Users
Subject: [Nagios-users] Multiple interfaces on on host (single  representation)

Hi Everyone,

  I'm setting up Nagios on a new server group, these servers all have 1
public IP and one private (internal network) IP. For the basic "up/down"
checks I'd like to ping the public IP, check for the services which is
provides, etc. all on the public IP.

  However for any NRPE stuff, I'd like to bind it to the internal IP
address and run all the checks on the local network. The problem is I
don't know how to keep from specifying 2 host definitions for each
server (ie. an external definition and internal definition). I don't
know if it can be done, but I'd like to have one record per server, just
for clarity and to avoid confusion.

  Does this make sense? Can it be done in a reasonable way? Or should I
just bite the bullet and make two host definitions per server?

Thanks for any help,
-Nick


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Nick Jennings
Technical Director
Creative Motion Design
www.creativemotiondesign.com

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