Best practices for running Nagios across multiple data centers

[Carlos de Santa-Ana Garcia]

Hi


Look at this:

http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_multisite.html


Greets.

El 22/06/2011 18:34, David Rosenstrauch escribió:
> I've had a lot of experience using Nagios in my previous job, where we
> used it to monitor numerous hosts and many different types of services -
> albeit all in the same data center.
>
> In my new job, however, I need to set up more sophisticated monitoring,
> since we have servers located in multiple data centers, with each data
> center containing a bunch of servers behind a firewall.  What are some
> of the best approaches for Nagios to handle monitoring a setup like this?
>
> I'm assuming I'd need to set up multiple Nagios instances - one for each
> data center - with each one monitoring the servers behind that data
> center's firewall.  What I'm wondering then, though, is how best to tie
> that all together.  Would I need to run another, "main" nagios instance
> that takes in information from the others?  If so, how best to feed the
> data from the 2nd tier instances into the main one?  Passive checks
> sound like they could do the trick, but if I understand correctly, that
> would mean I'd need to define each service check on both the main
> instance (as a passive check) and on the 2nd tier instance (as an active
> check), which sounds like a bit of a configuration headache.
>
> Anyone have any good suggested reading on how to best configure a setup
> like this?  Feel free to RTFM me, though I wasn't able to turn up much
> of use myself when searching on "nagios multiple data centers".
>
> Thanks,
>
> DR
>
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