Distributed host checks

[White, Chad (MED)]

Hi,
Does anyone have a good strategy for doing distributed host checks?

In my situation, I have a central Nagios server that accepts passive 
checks from distributed Nagios servers that are located in other 
networks.  There is absolutely no way that the central Nagios server 
can directly access the hosts that are monitored by the distributed 
servers, not even for ping.

I have service checks working well using NSCA to feed passive service 
check results to the central server.  However, I can't come up with a 
good way to do host checking in this circumstance.  Obviously I could 
use NRPE on my distributed servers to run ping commands, but due to the 
fact that I can't pass macros through to an NRPE command, I would need 
to define a command for each and every host I monitor.  I would really 
like to avoid that if at all possible.

What are some things that other people are using in this situation?  
Right now I just have host-checking off, but it would be nice to check 
the host and get one notification rather than one for each service on 
the host.

Chad White
Systems Administrator
GE Medical Systems - IT
chad.white at med.ge.com
Visit us at http://www.gemedicalsystems.com


-------------------------------------------------------
This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek
Welcome to geek heaven.
http://thinkgeek.com/sf
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
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