separate webfront

[Cassandra Pugh]

Hugo, perhaps you can elaborate?  Do you know how to pull the web page info
out and put it on another server?  

I am not sure if I want to go the NFS route, as we recently got hacked
through NFS vulnerabilities.    

However, it has been requested that this Nagios page be "public".  I have set
it up on my box as an internal website, so I know how to do that much... it's
just having half of nagios on our "public" web server that has me scratching
my head.  

Any further advice?

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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:37:06 -0500
From: "Marc Powell" <marc at ena.com>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] separate webfront
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Cassandra Pugh
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 3:32 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] separate webfront
> 
> I would like to know if anyone knows if the nagios program (and all it
> collects and monitors) and the webfront can be hosted on different
> computers?
> I do not want to make the server that nagios is hosted on a webserver,
and
> also do not want to bog down the webserver with the nagios processes.
> 
> Does anyone know what I would need to do to accomplish this
separation?

I have been successful in NFS mounting the nagios home directory from
another machine and using the CGI's from there. The only drawback is
that you will not be able to issue commands from the web interface at
all. NFS doesn't support named pipes.

--
Marc







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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 09:29:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] separate webfront
To: Nagios Users mailinglist <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
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On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Cassandra Pugh wrote:

> I would like to know if anyone knows if the nagios program (and all it
> collects and monitors) and the webfront can be hosted on different
computers?
> I do not want to make the server that nagios is hosted on a webserver, and
> also do not want to bog down the webserver with the nagios processes.

Apache is not that hard if you tune down the defaults. I think you will 
find the drawbacks of seperation harder then it needs to be.

If yyou do not wish to make it public you can always make the other apache 
server a front for this webserver. I do this for various aplications.

Hugo.

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