[smokeping-users] DHCP handling

[Bill Houle]

Similar theme: configure DHCP to allow clients to update DNS when they register. Then ping by name. 


> On Apr 10, 2016, at 4:01 PM, Douglas Spindler <doug.spindler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> BOOTP?  Or use a script to populate the  host file.
>  
> From: smokeping-users [mailto:smokeping-users-bounces+doug.spindler=gmail.com at lists.oetiker.ch] On Behalf Of Joshua Cameron
> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2016 3:56 PM
> To: smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> Subject: [smokeping-users] DHCP handling
>  
> Hey,
>  
> 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.
>  
> 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?
> Some sort of MAC address lookup or similar?
>  
> Joshua Cameron
> Systems Administrator
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