Or you could use the distributed monitoring method: have a master nagios server (running the web front-end) running at one locationa and then have another (or multiple) nagios daemons running on the other boxes that actually check the local machines at that colo and send passive check results via nsca to the master hosting the frontend.
-Don On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 17:24 -0400, Cassandra Pugh wrote: > Hugo, perhaps you can elaborate? Do you know how to pull the web page info > out and put it on another server? > > I am not sure if I want to go the NFS route, as we recently got hacked > through NFS vulnerabilities. > > However, it has been requested that this Nagios page be "public". I have set > it up on my box as an internal website, so I know how to do that much... it's > just having half of nagios on our "public" web server that has me scratching > my head. > > Any further advice? > > -- > Cassandra > (609) 243-2413 > > > "From a little spark may burst a mighty flame." > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:37:06 -0500 > From: "Marc Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] separate webfront > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cassandra Pugh > > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 3:32 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Nagios-users] separate webfront > > > > I would like to know if anyone knows if the nagios program (and all it > > collects and monitors) and the webfront can be hosted on different > > computers? > > I do not want to make the server that nagios is hosted on a webserver, > and > > also do not want to bog down the webserver with the nagios processes. > > > > Does anyone know what I would need to do to accomplish this > separation? > > I have been successful in NFS mounting the nagios home directory from > another machine and using the CGI's from there. The only drawback is > that you will not be able to issue commands from the web interface at > all. NFS doesn't support named pipes. > > -- > Marc > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 09:29:32 +0200 (CEST) > From: Hugo van der Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] separate webfront > To: Nagios Users mailinglist <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Cassandra Pugh wrote: > > > I would like to know if anyone knows if the nagios program (and all it > > collects and monitors) and the webfront can be hosted on different > computers? > > I do not want to make the server that nagios is hosted on a webserver, and > > also do not want to bog down the webserver with the nagios processes. > > Apache is not that hard if you tune down the defaults. I think you will > find the drawbacks of seperation harder then it needs to be. > > If yyou do not wish to make it public you can always make the other apache > server a front for this webserver. I do this for various aplications. > > Hugo. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
