2 Nagios boxes running together in different locations

[Roger Burton West]

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:53:56AM +0100, FTL Nagios wrote:
>Interesting  - How does it work though - I mean if the firewall plays up at
>Site A, it thinks everything in Site B is down - so Nagios GUI marks
>everything as down - what happens then if say a server in Site B does
>actually go down - we will not get alerted to that?

Correct. There's no way A can know what's going on at B if there's no
connection.

>I made a slight error in my original description - when the firewall "goes
>down" it cant contact anything at both locations, not just Site A, due to
>the fact that the protected interface stays up but just denies all traffic.

Then how will your two Nagios boxes be able to confer with each other to
agree that there's a real problem?


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