Creating hosts to monitor, do not resolve hostname
I have been using BB 1.9 for a long time and finally found myself the time to migrate to Hobbitmon. I am very impressed and pleased with the superior application and documentation!
The upgrade document ( http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/bb-to-hobbit.html ) was very useful, the impression I got was that bb-hosts operated the exact same way.
While I have found it is close to identical - something that my BB did not do was resolve hostnames and monitor those addresses resolved. I was always able to monitor the IP address and the hostname acted as a host identifier, nothing more. I have a lot of "fake" hostnames that are catching wildcards on domains that are resolving to undesired IP addresses.
I think that this would be a beneficial feature for me in several cases as some monitored hosts do have their IP change from time to time, though I have an SH script that updates bb-hosts for me. Having said that, I would like to keep this feature enabled.
What would be the best course of action for me to fix my problem here? Is there a tag that I can add to the hosts I don't want to be resolved by chance? Is there anything I can do outside of adding a hostname record for every single monitored host?
Thanks in advance and my thanks out to the Hobbitmon support and development team!
-- Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:27:21PM -0400, Josh Luthman wrote:
While I have found it is close to identical - something that my BB did not do was resolve hostnames and monitor those addresses resolved. I was always able to monitor the IP address and the hostname acted as a host identifier, nothing more. I have a lot of "fake" hostnames that are catching wildcards on domains that are resolving to undesired IP addresses.
Add a "testip" tag on these hosts in the bb-hosts file. Or if you want this to cover all hosts, edit the hobbitlaunch.cfg file and add the --dns=ip option to the bbtest-net command.
Regards, Henrik
Henrik,
Thank you very much for the solution and thank you for being timely!
I couldn't have asked for a better solution or better answer. The above information was simply perfect. Thank you very very much!
Josh
On 10/4/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:27:21PM -0400, Josh Luthman wrote:
While I have found it is close to identical - something that my BB did not do was resolve hostnames and monitor those addresses resolved. I was always able to monitor the IP address and the hostname acted as a host identifier, nothing more. I have a lot of "fake" hostnames that are catching wildcards on domains that are resolving to undesired IP addresses.
Add a "testip" tag on these hosts in the bb-hosts file. Or if you want this to cover all hosts, edit the hobbitlaunch.cfg file and add the --dns=ip option to the bbtest-net command.
Regards, Henrik
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