running multiple nagios instances?

[Morris, Patrick]

> We currently only have one instance of nagios running. We are looking
> to setup a 2nd node in a different location for redundancy purposes.
> 
> We are thinking of installing Nagios on it and then using rsync and
> some crons to update the slave server from our currently running
server
> so we only have to add new hosts to a single box.
> 
> Has anyone done this before and how does it work? Also, it would be
> nice to set it up somehow so that only our main server sends out the
> notifications when it's online or we'll get twice the notifications
for
> same failed services, which is a no-no. The secondary server could
send
> out the alerts if the primary fails numerous checks from the secondary
> for uptime.

Take a look at the docs under "Distributed Monitoring."  It describes
how to do exactly what you're looking for.

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