multiple nagios instances on one machine

[Andreas Ericsson]

Paul Weaver wrote:
> But if people want different additions to nagios, want tweaks to the
> cgi's (we have a link into our documentation system for example), etc.
> You may want to keep them completely separate.
> 
> Running nagios in a VM would seem the obvious answer though.
> 

Running Nagios inside a VM is not a very good idea. Nagios depends
rather heavily on the system clock moving forward in a steady pace.
Testing turned to hell here at op5 when our test-systems ran in
VM's due to the (sometimes) insane clock drifts we could see.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
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