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