nagios XI ec2 image with RDS databases

[kendallchenoweth]

Do you have an experience, recommendation or guidelines for using RDS databases (postgres and mysql) with Amazon ec2 instances?

http://aws.amazon.com/rds/

[tmcdonald]

Are you asking specifically about using them with Nagios or just in general?

[kendallchenoweth]

Specifically with Nagios XI mysql and postgres databases.

[kendallchenoweth]

My knowledge of Amazon RDS databases is expanding, but I think for the sake of this discussion, these are merely externally hosted databases.

Does Nagios XI support externally hosted postgres and/or mysql databases?

[slansing]

Postgres, not at this point, mysql? Absolutely, you can connect your XI server to a remote mysql DB by following:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... Server.pdf