[Nagiosplug-help] [Nagios-users] check_dhcp on infoblox

[Giles Coochey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Hari Sekhon
> Sent: 26 October 2007 18:47
> To: trevor obba
> Cc: nagiosplug; nagios-user
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagiosplug-help] check_dhcp on infoblox
> 
> trevor obba wrote:
> > Has anyone successfully had any check_dhcp nagios plugin working on
> infoblox? I could not get it to working on Infoblox
> > network appliance, I not even getting any log in infoblox logs
> >
> It should work from your linux server over the standard ethernet for
any
> dhcp server that responds over the network. If your black box solution
> "Infoblox" which I am not familiar with, actually responds to dhcp
> requests with dhcp offers then it should work the same as any other
dhcp
> server test.
> > I am running Nagios 2.5 on Suse enterprise linux 10, I am running
> check_dhcp
> > version 0.1
> >
> > Do you have ideas why check_dhcp.pl is not working for infoblox
network
> > alliances? What am I doing rough? Can you help please?
> >
> >
> Version 0.1? That sounds completely wrong. I am using the standard
plugin
> from the nagios plugins distribution which is not a perl plugin but a
> compiled plugin, and that is version 1.8 from nagios-plugins 1.4.8.
> 
> Check you are using the right plugin and then try again?
> 

The Infoblox appliance is running a customised version of ISC dhcpd,
check_dhcp should work just fine. I will give it a go at some point as
we have a couple of these devices.