monitoring thousands of servers using Nagios

[Jason Martin]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 04:14:45PM -0700, Kerry Cox wrote:
> aggregate this into a single monitoring solution? Is this even
> possible?
> Does Nagios provide a consolidation of multiple installs within a
> single web interface? Would there be a master Nagios machine that
> could manage all the others? Could it provide the single interface to
> the other groups of servers?
The central interface is your problem. The stock CGI's just
don't handle that kind of volume well.  Nagios has the capacity
for distributed monitoring but there are some gaps, such as
manually having to manually syncronize the configurations and
the fact that the 'central' console doesn't impact the
distributed consoles. This means you have to go to each
distributed node to do things like disable monitoring for hosts.  

Some hacking around with OCSP's and a custom web gui would let
you concentrate the results of several distributed Nagios
instances into one interface. 

-Jason Martin

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