[Nagiosplug-help] check_dhcp plugin on OS X

[Andreas Ericsson]

Randall R. Saeks wrote:
> When I am trying to run this and check with the syntax:
> 
> ./check_dhcp -s myserver -r myIP
> 
> I get the following message:  Error: can't get MAC address for this 
> architecture.
> 
> I got the binaries for the nagios plugins through macports.  Is there 
> something I am missing for this?
> 

Since there is no standard way of getting low-level hardware information 
(such as MAC-addresses and the like), check_dhcp contains a lot of 
portability code that makes it work on different systems. I don't think 
the OSX version of the bsd kernel where the plugins you're using were 
compiled had any published API's usable for determining this information.

In short, check_dhcp probably doesn't work on Mac OSX, because it hasn't 
been ported to it yet.

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