Re: [opennms-discuss] Http monitoring using hostname not IP

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Mark Wolek <Mar...@co...> wrote:
>
> I wish you could just simply monitor a DNS name and let OpenNMS figure out
> the IP to use… I had to find another HTTP monitoring tool to keep an eye on
> our cloud environment since the IP’s change randomly and without notice.
> Would love the ability to have OpenNMS do the DNS lookup each time it tests
> a site rather than connecting via IP.

For most large sites, access by dns name will go through some sort of
load balancer and the poll won't fail until the last server in the set
is dead - where you would usually want to know when any member of the
set fails.

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   Les Mikesell
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