Stephan Tesch wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm facing a problem for a long time now, having done some research on > this, but never been able to find a solution: > > We're monitoring a lot of redundant network hosts (routers, firewalls, > etc.) where we have to report the uptime of the whole setup, not only > the uptime of a single component. > > An example: > > We have routerA and routerB, that form a HA setup. If one router is > taken down, for example to update its firmware, or simply crashes, the > whole setup still should have a reported uptime of 100%. > > What I've already tried is to configure a cluster service. The problem > with this approach is, that I can't distinguish in the reporting whether > the host was down or unreachable, which is another crucial number to > report, also the downtimes don't get reflected very well. > > I'm running Nagios 3.2.1 with NDOutils if that matters for the question. > Is there any plugin or addon that provides this functionality? > > Many thanks, > Stephan > > One approach is to monitor a VIP for the service (i.e. the "clustered" ip of the external facing IP address of the routers) for finding if the service is up , and the individual devices by their direct IP for each device activity .
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