On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Hoot, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've implemented both solutions here. I ran the failover model first > and ran it for about 2 years. Now, I run both redundantly checking but > just without notifications on the secondary. I do this so that in the > event that I want to check that my performance metrics (ala rrd graphs) > are seeing the same information, I cant easily just go to my secondary > and check what it looks like there. > > But yeah... read up in the documentation because there are good examples > of setting it up either way. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean > McAfee > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:50 AM > To: Michael Weiner > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Design question > > 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. >
I was thinking the exact same thing - doing the redundant setup. Both will do what i was looking for in slightly different ways. Thanks again!! Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
