[Fwd: Syncing configs between 2 nagios servers -permissions]

[Morris, Patrick]

> 	I have 2 nagios servers that will be setup as 
> redundant, if nagios1 is down, nagios2 will enable its checks 
> + alert.  Using NSCA, I can sync the state, but I now have a 
> problem to sync the config and plugin directory.
> 
> 	The easiest way to sync would be to have all the files 
> in /etc/nagios/ and /usr/lib(64)/nagils/plugins/ owned by the 
> user who does the sync.
> Could I do a chown nagios:nagios on all those files?
> 
> If someone has a better idea, I welcome it!

I do that on a few machines.  The only potential snag (one that I have
to deal with) is if you have Nagios boxes running different OS versions,
in which case synching your plugins can be a bad idea.

Configs aren't a problem in any case, as long as you make sure they're
readable when they arrive. 

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