New Instance of Nagios

[tgfde]

Hi,

Has anyone implemented a new instance of Nagios before by cloning a Nagios host (VM server)? I'm trying to implement a development instance of Nagios but unusre of other changes I need to make before bringing up the new instance. I know I have to change the IP Address of the new instance but othere than that I have no clue.

Thanks in advanced.

tgfde

[mguthrie]

We don't actually have that documented or tested, so anything that you find out in that process let us know. I do know you'd have to change the program url in the Admin->Manage System Config page, but other than that I don't know off hand what will work or not work in that procedure. Let us know how it goes and we'll do our best to assist.

[tgfde]

If you have a new instance of Nagios (dev), would the prod and dev instance use the same agent?

Thanks.

[nscott]

Thats something that would need to be done if you have two instances and are using an agent like NRPE or NSClient++ that has the ability to filter traffic from IPs. Typically people setup NRPE and NSClient to only accept commands from specific IPs, this is something that you will need to update or change.

This goes for anything in which the Nagios server is specified explicitly, firewall rules, xinetd rules, etc.