JFTR: * [email protected] [2009-01-15 13:06]: > If you're running Nagios on a different network than the DHCP server and > there is a firewall in between, you'll probably have to do several things: > > 1. Open up a hole in the firewall to allow the Nagios server to request a > DHCP address from the DHCP server > 2. Have a DHCP relay statement on the router's interface your Nagios server > connects to so it knows to which server to relay the DHCP request to > 3. Setup a small DHCP subnet on the DHCP server in the same IP range as the > Nagios server so it can offer a valid IP address
For such a setup, step (2) isn't necessary, as check_dhcp will mimic a DHCP relay if the "--unicast" option is specified. Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
