Redundancy...bad?

Marc Powell mpowell at ena.com
Fri Oct 17 18:58:32 CEST 2003


I was wondering how that would work. It's my understanding that nagios
pretty much stores all it's 'working knowledge' in RAM and the
information that it dumps to the logs or DB is strictly for the use of
the CGI's and in the event of an unscheduled restart of the program
(i.e. crash).

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marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jeff vier [mailto:jeff.vier at tradingtechnologies.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 11:42 AM
> To: nagios-users
> 
> okay, my original impression wasn't valid in the longer term.
> 
> In fact, with as fast as the two servers break each other now, I don't
> know how it was working when I wrote my original email below.
> 
> The problem basically is the two nagios servers fight like mad over
> things like passive/active checking, etc.  Splitting the
xrddb_database
> settings doesn't help, and splitting the xsddb_database kinda defeats
> the whole idea.  That the xsddb_database stores things like
> notifications_enabled and checks_enabled are the issue.  I wish that
it
> didn't keep that kind of stuff in a "status" table, but, oh well.
> 
> Looks like sending over nsca checks from an active checker to a
passive
> central server is the way to go.
> 
> Bleh.  This is going to be a mess.
> 
> On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 17:58, jeff vier wrote:
> > What if, instead of "clustering" the recommended way as described in
the
> > docs utilizing passive checks aimed at a central server and such, I
> > simply set up two Nagios servers fully using a common MySQL backend?
> >
> > I have this set up now, and they both seem okay.
> > I figure, MySQL can handle it no sweat. Sure, sometimes they'll
check
> > the same thing, but for the most part they're going to be on
dissimilar
> > schedules and simply reference each others' results from the DB
(further
> > dissuading them from duplicate work).
> >
> > Am I missing some reason this would be a Bad Thing?
> >
> > Thanks for any input.
> >
> >
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