Which Is Best

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 08/25/2011 09:10 AM, Robert Jackson wrote:
> I'm looking into a Nagios installation to monitor both our Data Centre
> hardware as well as our own internal hardware. Would it be best to have
> 2 separate installations of Nagios (one for each site) or have a
> distributed installation? Also what would be the best platform for
> Nagios (either RHEL or Solaris - we currently use both in our
> environment)?
> 

Nagios relies heavily on fork() being cheap, which it is on Linux but
not on Solaris, so Linux is better for this.

As for one or two systems, that's mainly a matter of preference. Have
a look at Merlin if you want to connect two systems though. It'll be
a lot easier for you in the long run than maintaining config and stuff
yourself while using NSCA to run the checks.

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