[hobbit] Monitoring Non-routable Address Space

[Buchan Milne]

On Thursday, 26 April 2007, Bill Klinko wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have hobbit up and monitoring correctly quite a number of systems.
> However, today I am trying to monitor a system in non-routable address
> space and it does absolutely nothing. The system name does not even come
> up in the list of systems to be monitored. The hobbit server is in the
> same address space and can ping the system I want to monitor. I am at a
> loss for what is happening.....

More than 90% of our systems are in private address space, and I have seen no 
particular issues with this vs public address space.

Just be aware that by default Hobbit will do a DNS lookup for the hostname in 
the bb-hosts file. So, if you have public DNS for the hostname, then you may 
have problems ... in which case use the 'testip' flag for that host (there 
may also be an option to make this the default).

Regards,
Buchan

-- 
Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)
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