Could you share that little perl scripts with those of use that suck at perl? :) Guess I could do it in expect... Ralph Zimmermann <ralph.zimmermann@salt-ag.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I can see your point Frederik and agree that ip addresses in /etc/hosts are easier to maintain than addresses through .../nagios/etc/hosts.cfg, because if not using DNS to resolve the hostnames (which I don't want, to remain operational in case of DNS faults) it's at least one single source. But for fellow admins having nagios configured to monitor 500+ hosts it's a tough thing to convert... I guess I'll go and write a little script to extract ip-addresses and Nagios hostnames from hosts.cfg and paste them to /etc/hosts, afterwards replace ip-addresses with corresponding hostnames in hosts.cfg Regards, Ralph. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Fredrik Wänglund [SMTP:Fredrik.Wanglund@datavis.se] Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 30. Oktober 2002 16:33 An: dbestetti@interop.com.br; Nagios Mailing List Betreff: RE: [Nagio s-users] Apan Configurations Actually I don't use IP-numbers at all in Nagios, only host-names. All hosts I monitor in Nagios then lives in my hosts-file. It's safe to skip the adress-statement in the host-definition and leave IP-numbers to /etc/hosts. You also need to set up your name-service switch to always look in files first (I don't yse DNS on my Nagios-server). The benefits with this is that you have one source where IP-numbers and host-names are stored. The problem begins when you have many hosts, then your hosts-file get quite big. But I still think its easier to manage IP/name matching via /etc/hosts then the adress-statement in Nagios. /FredrikW -----Original Message----- From: Dario B. Bestetti [mailto:dbestetti@interop.com.br] Sent: Wed 30-Oct-02 14:26 To: 'Nagios Mailing List' Cc: Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Apan Configurations I would prefer to monitor by hostname since we monitor hosts with dynamic IP addresses. []s Dario. > -----Original Message----- > From: nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf > Of Erkki Kukk > Sent: terça-feira, 29 de outubro de 2002 08:30 > To: Fredrik Wänglund > Cc: Nagios Mailing List > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Apan Configurations > > > > Hi. > > Its great to see that someone is finally dealing with > graphing the perfdata. And for me Apan works fine. But I dont > like that it does all the checks by hostname :( I think it > is much better to check by ip address, like nagios does. > > Brgds, > erkki > > > > I am currently working on an HOWTO section in the docs on Apans > > homepage. > > > > Here's the short one (assuming tou have installed the files and > > defined the command): > > > > 1) Define a sevice in Nagios with apan as check_command and the > > plugin-name as first argument; define service{ > > host_name server > > service_description Ping > > ... > > check_command apan!ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60% > > ... > > } > > > > 2) Create a RRD_file > > rrdtool create /usr/local/nagios/rrd/server_Ping.rrd -s 60 > > DS:ping:GAUGE:300:0:U RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:50400 > RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:60:43800 > > > > 3) Define the serice in apan.cfg > > > server;Ping;/usr/local/nagios/rrd/server_ping.rrd;ping;ping:LI > NE2;Ping > > round-trip time;Secondsefine the serice in apan.cfg > > > > 4) Add a URL and icon to the service > > define serviceextinfo{ > > host_name server > > service_description Ping > > notes_url > /nagios/ cgi-bin/apan.cgi?host=server&service=Ping > > icon_image graph.png > > ... > > } > > > > > > /FredrikW > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ----------------------------- -------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</BLOCKQUOTE> <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://rd.yahoo.com/careers/mailsig/*http://www.hotjobs.com ">HotJobs</a> - Search new jobs daily now