Multiple adresses for one host
Some hosts today have more then one interface, and the common way to monitor these would be to create a host object for EACH interface based on the fact that each interface has it's own address.
What about making it possible to give several adresses to each host, so it all appears in the same host object?
It would require some logic regarding what check to run on what interface, but it can be solved!
anonymous
shared this idea
as of icinga 1.3.0 ipv6 with address6 as host directive is supported, using $HOSTADDRESS6$ macro.
2 comments
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Admindnsmichi
(Admin, Icinga)
commented
the thing with ipv6 is - using a current implementation/patch and slightly adopting that for idoutils/icinga-web too.
the thing with multiple 'interfaces' is that this logic must be adopted somehow. this would more custom macros then - where i'd really vote for custom variable usage for specific interfaces and their appropriate macro usage.
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Adminjhein
(Admin, Icinga)
commented
This would be good for IPv6 addresses as well, because in the future most hosts will have v4 and v6 addresses. Plugins could then decide which address to use.
