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Network objects with alias names
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### Network objects with alias names

Sometimes it is necessary to differ between the host you are running a check against and the name of the network object which is reported to the server. For instance imagine you are running a check against a multihomed host (a host with multiple IP addresses) and you want to access this target system via a well-defined network interface. In this case you can use a configuration line like the following:

    192.168.1.17(myhost) ping

This will run the ping test against 192.168.1.17. The result of the test however is then reported to be related to the network object myhost (see figure 2.2).

Figure 2.1. Host Aliases

A host definition of the form

    name1(name2)

is always treated by `uxmon` in the following way: name1 is used internally by the agent while name2 is the name reported to the Big Sister server. The server will be completely unaware of the uxmon internal name `(name1)`.

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