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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Douglas,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Script to work with the host file sounds great.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Did a few tests with that idea and it looks like it’ll work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Much appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">When the host is passed into FPing, will it check the hostfile everytime it’s run or will it cache the DNS requests?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Would I have to flush DNS cache whenever I change host file if something changes IP?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Whenever something changes IP address, I’ll have to have the script re-write the config file for Smokeping then restart the service.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Is that going to cause any issues on Smokeping side?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’m just going to do this with my host file:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">IPADDRESS MAC.tld.com.au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Then put the MAC.tld.com.au as the host in the Smokeping config file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Joshua Cameron</span></b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Systems Administrator</span></i><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Douglas Spindler [mailto:doug.spindler@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 11, 2016 9:02 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Joshua Cameron; smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [smokeping-users] DHCP handling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BOOTP? Or use a script to populate the host file.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> smokeping-users [<a href="mailto:smokeping-users-bounces+doug.spindler=gmail.com@lists.oetiker.ch">mailto:smokeping-users-bounces+doug.spindler=gmail.com@lists.oetiker.ch</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Joshua Cameron<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 10, 2016 3:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch">smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [smokeping-users] DHCP handling<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hey,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I use Smokeping for about 40 devices at the moment, but we’ve got around 200 more on the network I’d like to add to it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However some of the devices I want to monitor on our network can have dynamic IP addresses(DHCP), beside setting everything to static IPs which is never gonna happen, is there a way to keep the ping history data in Smokeping associated
to a device across IP address changes?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some sort of MAC address lookup or similar?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Joshua Cameron</span></b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Systems Administrator</span></i><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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