Failover monitoring and acknowlegements

[Chris Beattie]

Well, now you've got me thinking...

 

I thought I couldn't rsync the files because the running Nagios process
on the failover server wouldn't notice the changed files.  However, if I
can have a script run check_nagios via check_by_ssh from a cron job (I
don't know yet- I've never used check_by_ssh before), then Nagios
doesn't need to be running all the time on the failover server.  The
cron job can start the failover Nagios if the primary Nagios isn't
running, and stop the failover Nagios when the primary returns.  Since
the configurations on both servers would be the same, rsync could even
keep Nagios itself, updated on the failover server without me having to
do it manually.

 

From: Paul Weaver [mailto:paul.weaver at bbc.co.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:09 AM
To: Chris Beattie; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Failover monitoring and acknowlegements

 

For just a failover installation, are there any issues with rsyncing the
files from master to slave every minute?

 

 

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	From: Chris Beattie [mailto:cbeattie at geninfo.com] 
	Sent: 03 December 2008 15:22
	To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
	Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Failover monitoring and
acknowlegements

	Er, both servers are Nagios 3.0.5 running on CentOS 5.2, sorry.

	 

	From: Chris Beattie [mailto:cbeattie at geninfo.com] 
	Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:53 AM
	To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
	Subject: [Nagios-users] Failover monitoring and acknowlegements

	 

	I'm setting Nagios up in a failover configuration like is
described in the documentation, with the primary server feeding check
results to the failover server via NSCA.  That part's working fine, but
is there a good way to also keep host and service comments,
acknowledgements, and scheduled downtimes up-to-date as well?

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