Nagios Service Co-Location

[jsmith.mim]

My company, a small business with a relatively small infrastructure, is in the process of purchasing Nagios XI, Nagios Log Server, and Nagios Network Analyzer.

Would it be considered a poor practice to locate all of these services on the same physical server? I could probably separate Nagios XI, but there's really only one server in our infrastructure with enough storage capacity for the latter two tools.

[eloyd]

It's not poor practice, it's practically impossible.

Each of those pieces of software expects to run on its own server, and in fact, NLS, NNA, and NXI will conflict with each other for control of firewalls and ports if you run them on the same host.

HOWEVER, you can easily run a virtualization platform on the host and then run those three serves inside a virtual container on that single host. Not ideal, but it would work.

[rkennedy]

Thanks @eloyd!

The above is correct, each system will need to operate independently. You could look at something like ESX, Xen, or straight KVM as a hypervisor to serve the multiple VM's which would work.