Auto-discovery in a given subnet

[jeff weisberg]

On Feb 3, 2011, at 9:20 PM, Jeremy Kister wrote:

> you can make another file called 001_servers that is executable. in  
> that, you can script in whatever language you want and output Argus  
> config.
>
> what you want sounds rather easy, so if you want to give me some  
> more details I might be able to whip something up.
>
> supposing we're scanning 10.0.0.0/24, and we find 10.0.0.2 is alive  
> via ping, what should argus call this host?  do you have reverse dns  
> configured ?



this sounds like it will do what he _says_ he wants to do,
but I doubt it is really what he wants.


I mean, we wouldn't want to stop monitoring something
that happens to be down when argus restarts.
That doesn't seem productive.

Hope that you only restart argus when everything is good?
That doesn't sound like a reliable solution.