Distributed setup - host checking

[Marco Supino]

Hi,

 

I would like to know how people handle host checking in a distributed
environment.

 

Assuming the "Central" server is not able to access the computers in the
remote sites, I am using passive checks through NSCA to get the active
results done by the "Agent" nagios.

 

How do you define the hosts of the computers in the central server? Do
you use localhost as the host IP? Do you use freshness checking of hosts
in the central server?

 

I had an idea to use scheduled checking of the host on the "Agent" , and
send passive host results to the central nagios, if freshness checking
discovers the results are not fresh, It runs a script that put "Info:
host info is stale", and will exit with the same error code the host is
currently in (from the a macro value),

 

I think my way of handling this is wrong, as scheduled host checking
must be done on the agent, which is bad for performance.

 

Please share you thoughts/setup, I need some ideas..

 

Thanks.

 

Marco.

 

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