Monitoring with Opsview

Using the advanced host configuration

Opsview offers an advanced way of defining hosts, and we have already seen some of these, such as exceptions, the SNMP setup, and host attributes; however, there is more.

The first one is the Other Addresses field that we can use to assign multiple IP addresses or hostnames to our host, and the second is the parent field that allows us to set up a structure that we can use to detect network outages.

Monitoring multi-homed hosts

Without the Other Addresses field, we would have to create unique hosts for each interface that we would like to monitor (in some cases, this can be a plus). This means that we need to maintain different configurations for each IP.

If your hosts are set up in an environment with a separate ...