On 11/10/2011 1:32 PM, Mike Lindsey wrote: > On 11/8/11 6:06 PM, Benjamin wrote: >> I have about ten nagios core machines that I currently monitor >> collectively using MNTOS. Is there a way to feed the data from my >> nagios core machines to a nagiosXI machine that makes it possible to >> use the nagiosXI features like the visualization/dashboards/reporting >> for the services/hosts being monitored by the nagios core nodes? I >> basically want to replace MNTOS w/ a nagiosXI machine — so that I can >> utilize its features as a dashboard and reporting node for all the >> data I receive at each nagios core server. >> >> Basically, I want to set up a hub and spoke w/ a nagiosXI machine at >> the hub and all my nagios core boxes as spokes. >> I looked into DNX but this looks like it distributes the checks in a >> different way. Any ideas? > I'm not as familiar with XI as I'd like, but based on the demos and the > docs, I think NSCA will do just fine. I believe the configuration would > be exactly the same as with a normal Nagios Core install. > If you want to simply forward all of your results to a Nagios XI machine, you can define an OCSP command for all of your services and forward them along to the XI box. Nagios XI has a feature in the Admin->Unconfigured Objects menu that allows you to automatically add passive hosts and services that are inbound. Here are some docs with more details. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/distributed.html http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/guides/administrator/advanced.php#passivechecks
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