Nagios Federated Monitoring

[EngineerTom]

I am attempting to test a distributed nagios system to monitor our client sites. A Nagios XI server on each site to monitor what's there and then sending this information as NSCA passive checks to another central XI server.

It was my impression that setting up the client system with outbound transfers (NSCA) and the central one with inbound transfers (NSCA) would allow this and they would be seen in Unconfigured objects and be ready to monitor... nothing comes up though.

Am I missing something? Can someone help?

Thank you in advance.

Edit: I am attempting to use NSCA, not NRDS.

[slansing]

Just for a little verification, can you run through the following doc's to ensure that everything is set correctly?:

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

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

[EngineerTom]

Yes, these documents have been followed to the letter and attempted using both NRDS and NSCA.

Using NRDS the checks are submitted to the central server and seen in unconfigured object but they do not appear within any views, although the entry is seen in CCM.

NSCA shows nothing.

[abrist]

Using NRDS the checks are submitted to the central server and seen in unconfigured object but they do not appear within any views, although the entry is seen in CCM.

If they are appearing in unconfigured objects, then their respective checks have not been configured correctly in the CCM.

NSCA shows nothing.

Grep the messages file for the ip address of one of the nsca hosts:

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grep <ip of remote host> /var/log/messages

or for nsca checks in general:

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grep nsca /var/log/messages

[EngineerTom]

If they are appearing in unconfigured objects, then their respective checks have not been configured correctly in the CCM.

Deleted and re-added, seems good.

grep nsca /var/log/messages

Nothing shown...

[scottwilkerson]

On the XI server can you run

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netstat -an|grep 5667

and report the output

Also can you verify the following line contains the sending servers IP address

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cat /etc/xinetd.d/nsca|grep only_from

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