monitor from multiple locations

jeff vier jeff.vier at tradingtechnologies.com
Tue Aug 31 21:23:10 CEST 2004


On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 10:39 -0700, Tedman Eng wrote:
> One way to do this would be Nagios1, Nagios2, Nagios3, etc (say in Tokyo,
> London, and New York) monitoring the host.  Each of them sends their service
> checks to NagCentral.  The service definitions on NagCentral is passive
> checks only, and max check attempts = # of Nagios monitoring sites.  So, if
> all 3 sites chime in, the check would enter a hard state and notify.  "Soft"
> states would mean localized internet issues, etc.

But, uh, it wouldn't work that way.

RemoteA, RemoteB and RemoteC all send over, respectively and
chronologically, CRITICAL, CRITICAL, OK in the same minute.  You're only
going to see OK, unless your max checks are at 2 (which you said wasn't
the case).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Schouteden [mailto:tom.schouteden at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:08 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] monitor from multiple locations
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'd like to monitor my services and hosts from multiple locations in
> the way most commercial monitoring providers do.  It should basically
> work like this: Nagios1 checks HostA and receives a DOWN status, it
> notifies Nagios2 and Nagios2 performs the same check on HostA.  If
> Nagios2 also returns a DOWN status a notification is sent out, if not
> the service is not considered down or a 3rd Nagios point is activated,
> and so on.
> 
> I've read the distributed monitoring, failover and redundancy
> documentations.  But non of them seem to provide this service.
> 
> Any suggestions are welcome ...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> tom
> 
> 
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