Nagiosxi Client Installation

[lmichel]

Can one client be monitored by more than one Nagios servers?
if yes where is the secondary server configured on the client side.

I thought the nrpe.cfg file contains the IP address of my primary Nagios server but I could not find it any where.
can you tell me which file on the client side contains the IP of the Nagios server?
can multiple IP addresses of Nagios servers be added to the client configuration file?

[jdalrymple]

There is an allowed_hosts configuration option in nrpe.cfg, however this is typically handled by xinetd:

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[jdalrymple@localhost libexec]$ cat /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe
# default: on
# description: NRPE (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor)
service nrpe
{
        flags           = REUSE
        socket_type     = stream
        port            = 5666
        wait            = no
        user            = nagios
        group           = nagios
        server          = /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe
        server_args     = -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg --inetd
        log_on_failure  += USERID
        disable         = no
        only_from       = 192.168.145.133
}

change "only_from" to suit your needs, or omit it entirely to allow all hosts. After changing be sure to restart xinetd.

[jolson]

To add to what jdalrymple said, you can use more than one host in the 'only_from' setting.

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only_from       = 192.168.145.133 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2

[lmichel]

Hi I have been tasked to move the Nagios monitoring server to a VM.
what is the best practice?

[tmcdonald]

Hi I have been tasked to move the Nagios monitoring server to a VM.
what is the best practice?

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