wrong 3d before, sorry On 6 May 2010 11:55, Enrico Zimol <lomiz.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi at all, > I'm newbie on nagios and I'm writing here to ask you for suggestions > abut how to structure my monitoring situation. > I've to monitor linux servers for about 15/20 customers, from 1 to 5 > server for each customer. > We aren't on vpn with customers, so this servers are all behind NAT. > That isn't a problem because we are the administrator of the firewall > (other linux server) so we can manage any kind of DNAT and filter > rule. > > I read on official documentation that suggest to use NCSA addon for > distributed monitoring, but we choose to use NRPE addon for different > motivations like: > -customer force us to do that > -the number of monitored servers for each customer will never grow up > -the services to monitor for each server are the same (raid hw/sw, > disk usage etc) > -we need a completly centralized monitoring structure > > For last sentence I thought to use the arguments option on NRPE (yes, > I read the SECURITY document). > Besides, to solve the problem of NAT with NRPE I'll do DNAT on > firewall and the port parameter on check_nrpe plugin (is there > problems to do that? I did little tests but I prefear a confirm) > > > To manage this structure I need to organized a well-formed config file > structure on nagios server. > > I thinked to structure it like this > > obj--| > |-->templatelinuxserversgeneral.cfg > | > |-->customer_1_directory|->templateserver.cfg > | |->server1.cfg > | |->server2.cfg > | |->servern.cfg > | > |-->customer_2_directory|->templateserver.cfg > |->server1.cfg > |->servern.cfg > > > Where: > -templatelinuxserversgeneral.cfg is a very basic template for server > -customer_1_directory in wich there is 1 file for each customer's server > -templateserver.cfg will use templatelinuxserversgeneral and will add > more specific common variabiles for that customer's server like the > public IPAddress that will be the same for each customer's server. > -servern.cfg in wich there will be some very specific server variables > like nrpe port (read up). > > What do you think? > How can I organize that service-server combination? > > > Thank's so much > > P.S. sorry for my bad english > > -- > Enrico Zimol >
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