Hosts with multiple IP's + scheduling standard hosts

[mv652 at softhome.net]

Thanks Ralph,  I'll look into that. 

Is there any particular reason this 'scheduling' feature cannot be done 
through the bb-hosts as a TAG or similar to the NKTIME? 

I'm there is a valid reason and I'm asking out of curiosity. 


Regards,
Mario 


Ralph Mitchell writes: 

> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:59 AM, <mv652 at softhome.net> wrote: 
> 
>> Hi,
>> I've searched the archive as well as online but couldn't find a concrete
>> answer.
>> How can I monitor hosts that have multiple IP Addresses?
>> Currently we assign a 'virtual hostname' to each IP:
>> IP Hostname_a
>> IP Hostname_b
>> IP Hostanme_c etc. 
>>
>> I'm sure there muct be a simpler way. 
>>
>> Secondly, I've seen posts that explain how to schedule checks and alerts
>> for 'critical' hosts with "NKTIME", but is there a way to schedule check of
>> all hosts without adding them to a 'critical' list?
>> We only want to check certain hosts 19:00 - 06:00 M-F for example.
>  
> 
> You could do what I did at EDS, run the checks from cron.  That way you get
> to schedule exactly when the checks run, and can spread them out over a 5 to
> 10 minute period.  You'll want to make sure that either: 
> 
> 1) the last status message is given a long enough lifetime to get through
> the night without going purple; 
> 
> 2) after the last status message, send another message to "disable until
> OK".  That'll make it go blue until the first morning check.  This would
> give you positive confirmation that the checks were suspended and
> subsequently resumed. 
> 
> Ralph Mitchell