On 8/17/06, Marc Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /nagios-plugins-1.4.3/contrib. --
>Well, there you go. :) I'm new to Nagios so perhaps this too is a >stupid question, but when you configure a check, can't you use a >variable for the host in the check command line? I guess I need to go >look at my config files again.... Brian you are correct it is best practice to use the $HOSTADDRESS$ in your check commands. Not doing so would require that you would need to write a check command specific to each host and service. I am no expert on this and have not used the plugin in the mentioned in this thread. But I think maybe Marc is trying to say put the IP address in the hosts.cfg when you define a host so you do not run into an issue with DNS. So a host should be defined like this: define host{ host_name linux1.companyname.com hostgroups lin-servers alias Linux Server 1 address 192.168.125.15 check_command check-host-alive max_check_attempts 3 check_period 24x7 contact_groups localadmins notification_interval 120 notification_period 24x7 notification_options d,u,r,f } Assuming linux1 is a http server I would write the check command for this machine... well its straight out of the sample config. # 'check_http' command definition define command{ command_name check_http command_line $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$ } ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null