Running redundant nagios on shared storage (eg. NFS)

[Joerg Linge]

Am Dienstag, 20. Juni 2006 02:15 schrieb Filip Sneppe:
> > The Linux-HA project can do this for you.  Actually i've been referring
> > to recently as POSIX-HA.
>
> Yes, I have already worked with Linux-HA and I had planned on using it
> for this setup.
>
> > Plus you might consider shared-scsi storage as an alternative to shared
> > NFS to eliminate SPOFs
>
> Sure, that would also be possible. But I want to know if there are any
> drawbacks wrt starting up one nagios process on one node with the
> retention data that was kept up-to-date by the other node.

Hi Filip,
have a look on DRBD ( www.drbd.org )

Joerg 

--- SNIP ----

What is DRBD ?

DRBD is a block device which is designed to build high availability clusters. 
This is done by mirroring a whole block device via (a dedicated) network. You 
could see it as a network raid-1.

 


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