Nagios Double Checking with remote Nagios site for verification of errors

[Tedman Eng]

How about if both NagA and NagB perform active checks on C, and report via
passive checks to each other.  That way, you can see the status from itself
and it's peer and make the determination that Network C has a problem.


"AJ McKee" <aj.mckee at nmtbmedia.com> wrote in message
news:1057018078.3467.13.camel at laptop.nmtbmedia.dev...
> Hi all,
>
> Firstly sorry if this issues has been addressed before, the SF search is
> playing up so I cannot find any posts that may be relevant to this.
>
> Nagios is a very powerful monitoring application, however I am unsure as
> to if I can do the following with it so if anyone has any suggestions
> they would be more then welcome.
>
> I want to install two Nagios server. One in Network A the other in
> Network B, both of the to monitor Network C. If the monitor in Network A
> detects a problem on Network C, I would like it to verify that the
> problem exists with the monitor on Network B (And this should work vice
> versa) It the problem is confirmed on both Network a and B, then the
> notification and escalation events start to take place, otherwise a
> notification to the Nagios Admin be sent.
>
> Now I have though a bit about this and the only way I can seem to even
> try to do something like this is to write a plug-in that checks using
> NRPE or similar and returns a result, but this is a bit mess as if the
> result is positive, then the plug-in has to do the notifications. (Why,
> cause when say server-notify being run, instead of doing the notify I
> would want it to verify the error, once verified then  the notifications
> are sent out). However it would be nice if the 2 servers could be aware
> of this and auto negotiate all these problems for me (Hey, I'm a lazy
> git :)
>
> Anyhow, has anyone tried anything like this with Nagios? Or is there any
> plans in future releases to include this functionality?
>
> Any help in answering these questions would be most welcomed.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> AJ
>
>
>
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