From: Michael W. <we...@cc...> - 2008-07-31 13:58:50
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Sean McAfee <sm...@co...> wrote: > > 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? > > > > 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. > Thanks i am surprised i didnt see that already!! Thanks again Michael |