Sometimes it is necessary to differ between the host you are running a check against and the name of the network object which is reported to the server. For instance imagine you are running a check against a multihomed host (a host with multiple IP addresses) and you want to access this target system via a well-defined network interface. In this case you can use a configuration line like the following:
192.168.1.17(myhost) ping |
This will run the ping test against 192.168.1.17. The result of the test however is then reported to be related to the network object myhost (see figure 2.2).
A host definition of the form
name1(name2) |
is always treated by uxmon in the following way: name1 is used internally by the agent while name2 is the name reported to the Big Sister server. The server will be completely unaware of the uxmon internal name (name1).