Michael Weiner wrote: > Just a general question to the nagios user audience out there. I have > a situation that dictates I run two nagios instances due to the manner > in which our systems are provided power. We have no true data center, > and as such the servers being monitored by nagios are somewhat > distributed throughout the campus. My design question comes from a > recent major power outage that not only affected a slew of servers > that nagios was monitoring, but nagios itself. So my thought was to > provide a secondary, backup, nagios server somewhere off the power > grid – but the issue is that I don't want duplicate notifications. I > would like it setup such that the second device only monitors, and > will only send out alerts/notifications if and only if the primary > nagios server is down. Has anyone designed a setup similar to this? Is > this thinking not logical? Is there a better mouse trap? Is there any > design documentation? > > Thanks in advance for your input! > Michael Weiner >
Check out the documentation on Redundant and Failover Network Monitoring (http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/redundancy.html). Both examples will do what you want, but the underlying behavior is drastically different between the two so make sure you read carefully. Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217 **************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. **************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [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
