<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>Similar theme: configure DHCP to allow clients to update DNS when they register. Then ping by name. </div><div><br></div><div><br>On Apr 10, 2016, at 4:01 PM, Douglas Spindler <<a href="mailto:doug.spindler@gmail.com">doug.spindler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><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><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><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></div></div><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></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>smokeping-users mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch">smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch</a></span><br><span><a href="https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users">https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>