Nagios "Monitor of Monitors"

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, George Miscioscia wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone ever done something like this? I have 4 Central servers and 4
> Distributive servers sitting in 4 datacenters, one of each per DC. The
> Central/Distributive setup is for redundancy and capacity.  I plan on
> putting Central and Distributives in another 9 data centers.  What I want to
> do is roll up the alerts to one MOM, one Central Server which does not check
> freshness or send notifications.  It's sole purpose is to provide a focal
> point for all 13 Centrals.  I have set up "submit_check_result" on the
> distro's to send to two central servers successfully and have also set up
> the centrals to "submit_check_results" to a master server after each passive
> check.  The problem is that in both cases, performance degraded on the
> central or distributive.
> 
> I know that there are a few applications out there which do something like
> this, but I have found that they do not have the functionality of Nagios as
> far as sorting, etc.  I also want to keep the GUI's consistent.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> George
> 

Take a look at check_remote_nagios_status.pl in the distribution contrib 
dir...

Russell wrote it for a similar reason.  A bunch of Nagios servers running 
with their own config - A central MoM looking at the status.log on the 
boxes to provide summarized status.

Works great is the services are similar in each location.


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-sg



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