Nagios Double Checking with remote Nagios site for verification of errors

[AJ McKee]

Hi all,

Firstly sorry if this issues has been addressed before, the SF search is
playing up so I cannot find any posts that may be relevant to this.

Nagios is a very powerful monitoring application, however I am unsure as
to if I can do the following with it so if anyone has any suggestions
they would be more then welcome.

I want to install two Nagios server. One in Network A the other in
Network B, both of the to monitor Network C. If the monitor in Network A
detects a problem on Network C, I would like it to verify that the
problem exists with the monitor on Network B (And this should work vice
versa) It the problem is confirmed on both Network a and B, then the
notification and escalation events start to take place, otherwise a
notification to the Nagios Admin be sent. 

Now I have though a bit about this and the only way I can seem to even
try to do something like this is to write a plug-in that checks using
NRPE or similar and returns a result, but this is a bit mess as if the
result is positive, then the plug-in has to do the notifications. (Why,
cause when say server-notify being run, instead of doing the notify I
would want it to verify the error, once verified then  the notifications
are sent out). However it would be nice if the 2 servers could be aware
of this and auto negotiate all these problems for me (Hey, I'm a lazy
git :)

Anyhow, has anyone tried anything like this with Nagios? Or is there any
plans in future releases to include this functionality?

Any help in answering these questions would be most welcomed. 

Thanks in advance.

AJ



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