I don't think you understood Shawn, I have two separate Nagios installations, on here on my internal network, and one at our colo facility. We do use service groups/host groups in those separate instances, but they are on two different servers in two different locations. I have the colo Nagios instance monitoring some connections and such into my internal network, I have the internal Nagios doing the same kind of monitoring things to my colo.
On my internal Nagios I have 203 hosts and 573 services being monitored, on the colo one it's 37 hosts and 503 services. Some of that monitoring is redundant, meaning the internal and external are monitoring the same things, just from different directions. If I bounce my Exchange server, both the internal and external Nagios monitoring notices it, and alerts on different things. This kind of redundancy means that we rarely have any surprises. On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Shawn Everett <[email protected]> wrote: > Haven't finished reading the rest of the thread... > > Sherry: Why not just set up seperate service/host groups for each client. > I use client config directories with all the config for a given client > stored in that directory. > > Separate websites are only needed if you want an easier screen to look at > or clients to see their own devices being monitored. > > Shawn > > > +1 for Nagios. And you can use just about any old server/workstation you > > have sitting around for linux, you could even use a virtual server for it > > if > > you needed to. > > > > We use Nagios for monitoring our internal network, numerous web-sites, > vpn > > tunnels and a bunch of servers at our colo facility. We actually run 2 > > instances of Nagios, one internal and one at the colo, they provide > checks > > for each other, and a couple of ways of reporting it via Nagios web-site > > and > > emails. We use our internal linux box to run a variety of things > > including > > Nagios, LDAP, SyslogNG, Cacti and even an ET game server during lunch > time > > ;) > > > > You would still have a separate web-site for each clients location with > > Nagios, however, you can centralize the email notifications. Nagios can > > monitor probably everything that you could think of that you would want > to > > monitor. On a side note, Nagios actually stands for Notices All Glitches > > In > > Our Systems. > > > > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Mayo, Bill <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> We use WhatsUp Gold. I believe it does all that you describe. > >> > >> > >> > >> *From:* Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[email protected]] > >> *Sent:* May-02-09 12:52 AM > >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues > >> *Subject:* Monitoring Remotely > >> > >> > >> > >> I have been using Servers Alive for a lot of my clients who I monitor > >> their > >> lan. However, its getting a little large and tedious to go in and out of > >> remote clients and I was hoping for like a more centralized solution. > >> > >> > >> > >> The newest Servers Alive has a remote agent that talks over ssh that Im > >> about to test, but was wondering if anyone else knew of something > >> similar. > >> > >> > >> > >> Basically I would like to monitor cpu/ram/disk/a few services, and maybe > >> event log would be nice. However, if the internet goes down I would like > >> the > >> central unit to determine that first (something that servers alive > >> **does** > >> but mostly for the LAN so far). > >> > >> > >> > >> Right now I simply ping and/or port test remotely and then SA runs > >> internally so I have it covered but its too much at this point to manage > >> effectively. > >> > >> > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Sherry Abercrombie > > > > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." > > Arthur C. Clarke > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke Sent from Haslet, TX, United States ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
