How to monitor Nagios itself?

[Jason Martin]

You can set up a second nagios instanc and have the first one
run a CRON job to run check_nagios and send the result via NSCA
to the other nagios instance. See the manual for distributed
monitoring.

-Jason Martin


On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 01:14:28PM -0700, David Knutson wrote:
> I've completed the setup of a Nagios system to monitor a number of our
> internal systems, and it seems to be working great.  Now I want to setup
> a system at a remote site to monitor the monitor!  All I want this
> second system to do is alert me when the first system goes down.  Of
> course, I would also monitor the second system from the first. 
> Complicating this is the fact of a firewall between the two systems -
> for instance, I can't run check_ping because the firewall stops it.  And
> I can't use a VPN.  
>  
> So, can anyone recommend a reliable set of checks to run that will
> monitor the monitors and pass through a firewall?

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