Nagios Support Forum

Hi guys,

Just have a small licensing query.

Say we have 100 hosts, and to fully monitor them we need to poll a Dell iDrac/ HP iLO interface to check for hardware faults, as well as NRPE/NCPA interface to check for OS and application faults.

We're only polling one piece of hardware, but these are at two separate IP addresses, so count as two separate hosts under Nagios licensing?

Or is there a correct way to get Nagios XI to identify them as a single host?

What you would do in this case is define a command that has a different IP address in it (instead of using the $HOSTADDRESS$ macro that they use by default) in Configure > Core Config Manager > Commands and then assign that service to the host with the other IP address. For example, you have your main host and then the iLO/iDrac checks to the other IP as services underneath that main host as they are technically the same host.