If I understand you correctly, are you trying to have your master server accept passive checks from other Nagios servers and check services and servers itself?<div><br></div><div>If so, what I think would be easier (and is the method recommended by the docs) would be to just set up a second Nagios server (or instance) to run the checks that the master is currently doing and have the master only accept passive checks.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The master would have enable_notifications on, execute_service_checks off.</div><div>The slaves would have enable_notifications off, execute_service_checks on.</div><div><br></div><div>There's more to it than just that, read the following guide for more information:<br>
</div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/distributed.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/distributed.html</a></div><div><br></div>
<div>Also, if you simply want a unified interface, you might want to look at Nagios Fusion. I haven't used it, but it might be what you want.</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck,</div><div>Jeffrey.</div><div><a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/distributed.html"></a><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Samuel Kidman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Samuel.Kidman@panres.com">Samuel.Kidman@panres.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hello</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I am trying to set up a distributed nagios configuration that will monitor n mine-sites. There is a single master server that will accept passive checks from all of the mine sites providing a unified view of network status throughout the organisation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I have set up host groups that represent groups of hosts with similar function and have the same service checks ran against them such as switches and PLCs. Whenever we get a new device I can just add it to the right host group and it gets all of its service checks by being a member of that hostgroup.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">My question is how do I disable active checks for the service checks for the remote minesites without having to create a separate service check for each site? The only thing I’ve been able to think of is using an external command at nagios start up that checks all of the services on the master server and works out which ones belong to remote sites and then disables active checks on each one, but this seems like a messy way.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>If there was a way to have host group intersections in the hostgroups property in service checks I could specify two services and two hostgroups – a local and a remote one. The local check applys to its function group AND all devices at the head office while the remote check applies to its function group AND all remote hosts, however at present I think this functionality is unavailable.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Just looking for some configuration suggestions on how to get this to work.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#003366">Sam Kidman</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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