<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Semir H.<BR><B>Sent:</B> 24 January 2007 23:29<BR><B>To:</B> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Nagios-users] TWO instances of Nagios on one server - possible?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV>Hi everyone,<BR><BR>Would it be possible to run two instances on Nagios on one machine?<BR>The server would be Debian (with Apache).<BR>I want one Nagios instance to monitor one lot of hosts and the other to monitor a different lot of computers and they should be independent of each other. <BR>How would I go about doing this?<BR>Simply installing Nagios in two different locations and making Apache server each?<BR><BR>Thanks<BR>Semir<BR><BR><SPAN class=187240907-25012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>[John Longland] </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=187240907-25012007></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=187240907-25012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Semir</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=187240907-25012007></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=187240907-25012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I agree with the other posts. I don;t know your system / setup, but I would suggest your consider</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=187240907-25012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>using different log-files for the 2 instances. I *accidently* ran more than one server at some stage</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=187240907-25012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>and it caused havoc in my particular setup. You could'nt make out what was going on when</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=187240907-25012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>reading the archive / log entries.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=187240907-25012007></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=187240907-25012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Just a suggestion ;-)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=187240907-25012007></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=187240907-25012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Best !</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=187240907-25012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>John</FONT> </SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>