Nagios Support Forum

Thank you lmiltchev. From your response it appears not outrageous to run Nagios on the systems being monitored. The admins assure me there's enough horsepower, I was just curious whether it was more wise to run the monitor on a separate, hi-reliability standalone system, on an independent UPS and ne...

A very general question... Is it wise to consider running Nagios on a vm rather than a standalone system with its own UPS? It seems to me the tool that monitors other systems should not be virtualized or running alongside the services it is to monitor, but opening the question up to the users/expert...