Le 05.08.10 23:08, Herb J. a écrit : >> Hmm, in fact, do you have to configure the central collector to let him >> know what the other collectors are doing? >> > > > All collectors are configured with the same check commands and > templates, but the remote collectors only know about their specific list > of hosts and services to monitor. The central collector knows about all > hosts, services, service check commands, etc. (Since Nagios ignores > passive data for hosts and services it doesn't recognize, it has to know > about everything being monitored.) However, the central collector is > configured to not run any active checks (except for monitoring the other > collectors) and is configured to accept passive check data. The remote > collectors are configured to run active service checks on their list of > servers (ignoring passive data since they don't receive any) and does > not generate any alerts or notifications. All of this is done by having > the central collector use slightly modified host and service templates.
Too bad - I'll continue playing with NagiosCentral then, I don't want to configure all services twice... Thank you very much for your explanations, you spared me quite some headaches - now I know it's not what I'm looking for ;) Linus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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
