newbie question...

[Marc Powell]

On May 31, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Nick Hasser wrote:

> I haven't had a situation like this yet, so this is more a theoretical
> question, but how do you monitor services which are provided by
> redundant servers with failover (i.e. services are still up when a
> particular physical server is down)?

Using the check_cluster plugin is most common. You monitor the  
individual machines and services and check_cluster reflects the  
overall state of the service being monitored.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/clusters.html

--
Marc


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