Thanks much for the suggestions! I'll give Merlin and Multisite some thought. Neither one of them seems to be in the CentOS (or EPEL) repos though, which makes me a little reluctant.
I also read up a bit on the Nagios NSCA option too, and it may not be as bad to configure as I thought, so I might wind up going with that. Will run some experiments later today. Thanks again for the pointers! DR On 06/23/2011 02:47 AM, Pipitone Alan (External) wrote: > Hi > > To set up distributed Nagios installations, you can try Merlin: > http://www.op5.org/community/plugin-inventory/op5-projects/merlin > > In your case, I think that You should only open (on your firewall) > the port that Merlin uses to contact other Nagios servers. > > I use it, is exceptional. > > Bye > > Alan Pipitone http://www.alan-pipitone.com > > -----Original Message----- From: Carlos de Santa-Ana Garcia > [mailto:car...@dsag.jazztel.es] Sent: mercoledì 22 giugno 2011 21:30 > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] > Best practices for running Nagios across multiple data centers > > Hi > > > Look at this: > > http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_multisite.html > > > Greets. > > El 22/06/2011 18:34, David Rosenstrauch escribió: >> I've had a lot of experience using Nagios in my previous job, where >> we used it to monitor numerous hosts and many different types of >> services - albeit all in the same data center. >> >> In my new job, however, I need to set up more sophisticated >> monitoring, since we have servers located in multiple data >> centers, with each data center containing a bunch of servers behind >> a firewall. What are some of the best approaches for Nagios to >> handle monitoring a setup like this? >> >> I'm assuming I'd need to set up multiple Nagios instances - one >> for each data center - with each one monitoring the servers behind >> that data center's firewall. What I'm wondering then, though, is >> how best to tie that all together. Would I need to run another, >> "main" nagios instance that takes in information from the others? >> If so, how best to feed the data from the 2nd tier instances into >> the main one? Passive checks sound like they could do the trick, >> but if I understand correctly, that would mean I'd need to define >> each service check on both the main instance (as a passive check) >> and on the 2nd tier instance (as an active check), which sounds >> like a bit of a configuration headache. >> >> Anyone have any good suggested reading on how to best configure a >> setup like this? Feel free to RTFM me, though I wasn't able to >> turn up much of use myself when searching on "nagios multiple data >> centers". >> >> Thanks, >> >> DR >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> -------- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual >> environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible >> recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you >> need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. 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