Nagios to monitor alarms from the same source IP address

[deepavaidya]

Hi,

Is it possible to monitor two different customers sites having same IP ranges and the networks are independent of each other?


Example:

Customer site 1 : 10.20.52.14 - 10.20.52.28
Customer site 2 : 10.20.52.20 - 10.20.52.40

Hosts from the two sites may be having same IP source, it is possible to monitor alarms of same source IP address from 2 different sites.

[slansing]

If they have the exact same IP that will cause problems, can you use the FQDN's of one of the sites and the IP addresses of the other?

[deepavaidya]

Hi Thanks for the reply, We can create the two different hostnames one with the FQDN of the hosts and another one with the IP address but a small query regarding the same,

If we configure the hostname as host it will still query with the help of Ip address of the host only and here in our environment the network address will be resolved through dns, and then how nagios can differentiate the two hosts as both are pointing to the same IP address,

A small guess can we achieve this by differing the snmp communities for the two servers?

[scottwilkerson]

You can actually use DNS names in the IP address fields in XI and they will be resolved when the plugin runs. So everywhere you see an "IP address" field, you can actually use a DNS name and it will be resolved..