distributed monitoring = remote monitoring?

[Daniel maher]

I would wager that the benefit could be considered in both contexts!
For example, the only scenarios that I've set up distributed monitoring
for are WAN networks spread over prohibitive distances - and it works
very well!

 

 

Daniel Maher

System Engineer

ACE TECHNOLOGY INC.

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From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Toby
Kraft
Sent: July 20, 2005 2:59 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] distributed monitoring = remote monitoring?

 


All, 

Question regarding distributed monitoring - is the benefit of this
configuration primarily to distribute the service check workload among
several servers or is it used primarily to support a distributed WAN
environment allowing you to have active checking nagios boxes in remote
locations that funnel their status results to a central monitoring
nagios server? 

The docs say it's for offloading cpu load and don't really talk about
remote locations and such.  But the architecture seems to fit a
distributed WAN environment. 

I have a couple of clients that have, say, 3-5 locations, each with < 10
hosts and 20-30 services at each site to monitor.  I was under the
impression that the distributed approach would isolate the traffic for
the active service checks to the local lan and only send status info to
the central server when something 'interesting' happens.  Is that
correct?  Is this kind of environment suitable for distributed nagios or
would it be overkill to go the distributed route? 

Thanks, 

Toby

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