<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hugo van der Kooij wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:494F355B.3080904@vanderkooij.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> With nagios you could install a local server for each customer where the objects will have local addresses for the hosts. And let each local instance report to a global server. But then you must make sure that the hostnames will remain unique on a global level. </pre> </blockquote> Hugo is onto something there. This is exactly how we do it. We deploy a Nagios instance for each customer. The remote Nagios instance is configured on our central server and the remote server drives all of the notifications/alerting etc Our web site explains it in more detail <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.smartmon.com.au">www.smartmon.com.au</a> <div class="moz-signature">-- <a href="http://www.smartmon.com.au">Smartmon System Monitoring</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.smartmon.com.au">www.smartmon.com.au</a> </div> </body> </html>