Nagios supervising nagios?

[Linus Gasser]

Le 05.08.10 23:08, Herb J. a écrit :
>> Hmm, in fact, do you have to configure the central collector to let him
>> know what the other collectors are doing?
>>
>
>
> All collectors are configured with the same check commands and
> templates, but the remote collectors only know about their specific list
> of hosts and services to monitor. The central collector knows about all
> hosts, services, service check commands, etc. (Since Nagios ignores
> passive data for hosts and services it doesn't recognize, it has to know
> about everything being monitored.) However, the central collector is
> configured to not run any active checks (except for monitoring the other
> collectors) and is configured to accept passive check data. The remote
> collectors are configured to run active service checks on their list of
> servers (ignoring passive data since they don't receive any) and does
> not generate any alerts or notifications. All of this is done by having
> the central collector use slightly modified host and service templates.

Too bad - I'll continue playing with NagiosCentral then, I don't want to 
configure all services twice... Thank you very much for your 
explanations, you spared me quite some headaches - now I know it's not 
what I'm looking for ;)

Linus

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