Hi Benny, Yes, I'm using WINS. We have a simple LAN here, nothing fancy.
I think that my best bet is having my DCHP daemon reserve a given IP for each host. Thanks for your help and suggestions -- much appreciated! --- Matt Lozier Network Administrator 972.644.2581, ext. 248 972.661.2701 fax The information contained in this message or any attached document is confidential and intended only for the individual(s) or entity to which it is addressed. The information should be considered privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use of the information contained in or transmitted with the communication, or dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If you have received this communication in error, please inform the sender by immediately returning this communication to the sender and then deleting the original message and any copy of it in your possession. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of C. Bensend Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 2:40 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring hosts and DHCP > Thank you for the reply, but unfortunately I'm not using DNS, and I don't > want to have to :-) > > Just want to know if there is a way to monitor hosts that obtain their IP > address via DHCP. > > I'll continue to see what I can do with this, and will reply to the list > if > I find a solution. Ummmmmm... So how do you access the hosts, if they're switching IPs on you and you're not using DNS? Do you just rely on WINS or something? You could set up passive checks, and have the DHCPized machines *send* you the test results, that way Nagios wouldn't have to have some way of addressing them. I *think* that would work? I've never tried it. Benny -- "If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little." -- George Carlin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ 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