multiple instances of nagios

[Marc Powell]

----Original Message----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jonathan
Nichols
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 12:12 PM To: Jan Scholten
Cc: Mario Sergio Candian; Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] multiple instances of nagios

> Jan Scholten wrote:
> 
> > If someone knew he answer he will probably posted it.. but writing a
> > second mail just 4 hours later is.. not very kind?!
> > 
> > I don't know the answer, cause i don't understand what you want to
do,
> > so  i keep my mouth shut.. maybe you should try to explain better..
i
> > don't  get why you need multiple instances, and i didn't find any
> > explanation  what you tried to make it work.. apart from copying
s.th.
> > 
> > You can restrict the view of services for differnet contact groups
(if
> > you  have different customers) so i really don't understand why you
> > want two  seperate instances running.. and copying the directory
with
> > exactly the  same configuration seems to be a bit strange ?!?
> > 
> 
> I can understand why, as I may need to do the same thing.
> 
> Company A needs monitoring, so does Company B - you only have 1 box to
run
> Nagios off of, and you don't want Company A seeing what's up/down at
Company
> B.  

This can be accomplished through proper use of contacts and
contactgroups. With CGI Authorization enabled, login users can only see
hosts and services which they are contacts for.

--
Marc


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