Nagios full copied reserve server

[Chris Haulmark]

Hello:
> Hello everybody. I need to have nagios reserve server which will
> replace the main server when it dies. I installed nagios on another
> machine, copied all directory /usr/local/nagios and start reserve
> service Nagios.
> I have thound that statistics differs very much! Of course, nagios was
> installed in different time on each server. But when I copy status.dat
> file from the main server, availibility statistics on the reserve
> server became the same! But AFTER RESTART it returnes to  its previos
> state:(.
> 
> So, I can't solve this problem, because I can't understand what files
> I need to copy in order to make  the full copy:(.
> 
> I must mention that reserve server must not work all time. It has  to
> be turn on ONLY when main server dies. So, what about availibility
> statistics?
> How to make statistics on reserve server STRONGLY the same as on the
> main server?

Sounds like you are wanting a failover system for your two Nagios
servers.

You can start reading here:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/redundancy.html

Chris
> 
> With the great respect to everybody, Kristine
> Linux System Administrator
> 
>
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