Re: [Nagios-users] Distributed monitoring without direct networkconnection

[Andreas E. <ae...@op...>]

Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
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> Nick Lunt wrote:
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>> It's not that the connections will be up/down it's more that they simply
>> won't be there. Most of our clients are NHS (hospitals) and we  have to
>> have a secure vpn connection that we dial into on an as needed basis.
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>> We currently just send alerts as emails to our support account, but the
>> company is getting bigger and bigger so monitoring the support inbox is
>> becoming a massive chore. We really want a central nagios server with
>> the web frontend on a big flat screen on the wall :)
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> Setup dedicated links. With VPN's this should not cost you an arm and a leg.
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> You try to fix the wrong problem in my view.
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Since the targeted organizations are hospitals, I think it's legal matters
rather than competence that make dedicated links a showstopper.

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