Re: [Nagios-users] IP and hostname mapping control

[Jim A. <ji...@ji...>]

On 29 June 2010 06:40, Network Operation Center FMC Luxemburg
<NO...@eu...> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm looking for a way to check out the mapping between a hostname and IP
> address.
>
> Example: IP 192.168.0.1 exists and if the hostname foo.mylan.com is not
> associated with this IP, I would have an alarm.
>
> Indeed the script below returns no alarm :
>
> define host {
>     use             unix-server
>     host_name       foo.mylan.com
>     display_name    foo
>     address         192.168.0.1
>     check_command   check_http
> }
>
> define service {
>     use            local-service
>     host_name      foo.mylan.com
>     service_description   HTTP local
>     check_command  check_http
> }


If you are referring to name/address resolution by DNS, then does the
check_dns plugin do what you want?