Some devices only accept IP addresses as destinations, or resolve a FQDN to an IP and that goes in the config.
I add secondary IPs to servers for these functions. Then I can simply move the IP to a new host whenever the role moves. On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:13 AM Dovid Bender <do...@telecurve.com> wrote: > Hi, > > A bit off topic. One of my early mistakes in my 9-5 was hard coding the > IP's of our SNMP box in all of our gear (networking equipment, Servers > etc,). The box is at its limit and increasing its capacity will be > nearly impossible. We mainly use Nagios and Cacti to monitor our network. > Going forward I was thinking of setting up a few hosts whose job would be > to simply relay SNMP traffic. This way moving forward we could hard code > several IP's and bounce all traffic through one of these IP's. > > TIA for your advice. > > Regards, > > Dovid > >
