On Sep 1, 2008, at 8:12 AM, Steven Battaille wrote: > Is there anyone who can tell me if it is possible to run more than > one instance of nagios on the same machine?
To answer your question... Yes! It is really easy to run multiple instances of Nagios on the same machine. :-) A simple approach, albeit more overhead, is to simply configure/install both Nagios and Nagios Plugins in a different directories by passing the '--prefix=/ path/to/separate/nagios/installations'. Each instance will than have its own init script and apache web alias (which you could setup as customer1.domain.com). I think it is a great way to separate customers instances, though you may have to do some scalability testing to see how far you can push your hardware. It is not as elegant as Gerhard's method (http://people.consol.de/~lausser/nagios/more-than-one-nagios.html ) BUT it has the ability to update each individual instance of Nagios, Nagios Plugins, and 'configuration changes' without affecting the other instances. Which I think is really nice. :-) As another benefit.. you can give each instance owner full rights to their instance. We use it internally to test out different versions and combinations of Nagios and Nagios Plugins. ::For Example:: In Nagios source directory: ./configure --with-command-group=nagcmd --prefix=/path/to/separate/ nagios/installations make all make install make install-init make install-config make install-commandmode make install-webconf htpasswd -c /path/to/separate/nagios/installations/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin In the Nagios Plugins source directory: ./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios -- prefix=/path/to/separate/nagios/installations make make install Good luck! Mark Young ___ Nagios Enterprises, LLC Web: www.nagios.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
