> My questions:
>
> % Is "host_name localhost" really necessary here? There's no
> reference to $HOSTADDRESS$ anywhere in confirm_dns, but if I
> don't define "host_name", nagios complains.
You'll need either a hostname or hostgroup that the service belongs to.
> % I want to check about 20 hos
First off, let me say that I am in no way a Nagios expert and I'm in the
process of setting up my monitoring environment as well. But I will do
my best to help point you in the right direction.
Kelly Jones wrote:
> My questions:
> % Is "host_name localhost" really necessary here? There's no re
Thanks to everyone who suggested nagios-- I have now started using
it... so here come the newbie questions...
I'm paranoid that someone will attack my DNS providers, so I want to
confirm my hostnames look up correctly. I wrote this command:
; this is different from check_dns
define command {
com
Mike Hamrick wrote:
> I can't speak for OpenNMS, but I think for Nagios the answer for a lot
> of your questions is going to be:
>
> "There isn't a way of doing this with the standard nagios plugin
> package, but someone has probably written a plugin that does this,
> check the Nagios Exchange sit
