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by gormank
Wed Apr 01, 2015 5:15 pm
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: XI installation and failover design
Replies: 36
Views: 3734

Re: XI installation and failover design

Is an active instance in both locations necessary? -- No, that's just how I pictured it. Each instance monitoring the other. Do you have a prescribed RPO/RTO you have to meet? -- No, but losing data would be frowned upon. I think gearman in secondary site, active instance in primary site and cold fa...
by gormank
Wed Apr 01, 2015 4:44 pm
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: XI installation and failover design
Replies: 36
Views: 3734

Re: XI installation and failover design

I'm thinking of both in a way. I come from an HA background and tend to think in those terms. My understanding is Nagios has no HA and trying to make it redundant is going to be a pain. At this point, I'm looking for first, an answer on the practicality or impracticality of my 4 server "solutio...
by gormank
Wed Apr 01, 2015 2:23 pm
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: XI installation and failover design
Replies: 36
Views: 3734

XI installation and failover design

We have 2 sites in separate states each with ~60 devices to be monitored. Most are Windows or linux with storage, etc. as well. Each site is a mirror of the other with identical hardware, software and configuration. There is a primary and failover site. We are beginning to set up Nagios XI to monito...
by gormank
Tue Jan 20, 2015 2:30 pm
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: How does Nagios monitor the health of its agents?
Replies: 1
Views: 819

How does Nagios monitor the health of its agents?

Forgive me if this is an ignorant question. I'm new to Nagios. In other monitoring systems I've worked with, there were heartbeat alerts sent by NEs, or by agents to let the system know that things were still working. Ping tells us the server is on the network, but if an agent dies or locks up, how ...