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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Well, now you’ve got me
thinking…<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I thought I couldn’t rsync
the files because the running Nagios process on the failover server wouldn’t
notice the changed files.  However, if I can have a script run
check_nagios via check_by_ssh from a cron job (I don’t know yet- I’ve
never used check_by_ssh before), then Nagios doesn’t need to be running all
the time on the failover server.  The cron job can start the failover
Nagios if the primary Nagios isn’t running, and stop the failover Nagios
when the primary returns.  Since the configurations on both servers would
be the same, rsync could even keep Nagios itself, updated on the failover
server without me having to do it manually.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Paul Weaver
[mailto:paul.weaver@bbc.co.uk] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:09 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Chris Beattie; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Nagios-users] Failover monitoring and acknowlegements<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>For just a failover installation, are there any issues with
rsyncing the files from master to slave every minute?</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p><i><span lang=EN-GB>"Watch out for that tree"<br>
</span></i><b><span lang=EN-GB><br>
</span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Paul
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lang=EN-GB><br>
</span><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Work:  </span></b><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>020 822<b>5
8109here <br>
Mobile:   07736 481006<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Chris Beattie [mailto:cbeattie@geninfo.com]
<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 03 December 2008 15:22<br>
<b>To:</b> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nagios-users] Failover monitoring and acknowlegements</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Er, both servers are Nagios 3.0.5
running on CentOS 5.2, sorry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Chris Beattie
[mailto:cbeattie@geninfo.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nagios-users] Failover monitoring and acknowlegements<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>I’m setting Nagios up in a failover configuration like
is described in the documentation, with the primary server feeding check
results to the failover server via NSCA.  That part’s working fine,
but is there a good way to also keep host and service comments, acknowledgements,
and scheduled downtimes up-to-date as well?<o:p></o:p></p>

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