Nagios supervising nagios?

[Herb J.]

That would be considered a standard distributed Nagios setup. We do that 
in our Nagios cluster.

We have a number of remote Nagios collectors in different locations. 
They all forward their service check results back to a central 
monitoring server. That server doesn't actually run any host or service 
checks (other than to monitor the remote collectors), but that depends 
on how you configure your Nagios installation. Each remote collector is 
fully independent in the fact that they have the standard Nagios web 
interface, they schedule their own service checks, and they can generate 
notifications for failed hosts/services (we decided against that and 
only have our central collector generating notifications). The data is 
passed back using OCP_daemon to improve performance, which feeds data 
back to the central collector using NSCA.

However, due to the size of our setup, without heavy use of templating 
and fully automated configuration file management, it would be a 
nightmare to maintain.


On 08/05/2010 11:50 AM, list at markas-al-nour.org wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I searched a bit around, but I don't find a solution to my (IMO) simple
> idea: if I have nagios installed on different servers, is it possible to
> have a central nagios-instance that gets it's data from the remote ones?
>
> The idea is to have different nagios-instances which are independent, but
> which can be monitored from a central nagios-instance.
>
> As far as I read, both NSCA and NRPE are not exactly what I'm looking for.
> Could Opsview do something like that?
>
> Thanks if you have a pointer,
>
> Linus
>
>
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