Multiple Nagios XI servers and a Single Nagios Fusion Server

[jzimmerman]

I'm looking for recommendations and ideas for the following scenario....

I have multiple Nagios XI servers in geographically different data centers. I have IP connectivity between all servers. I've got one installation of Nagios Fusion in one of the data centers. I can connect to all of the Nagios XI servers via Nagios Fusion.

What I am looking for, having really only worked with Nagios Core previously, is ideas, recommendations, or someone with as similar setup of XI on how to synchronize configurations between XI servers. Things I would want the same on all servers include users, contacts, contact groups, time periods, host groups, etc... The host definitions wouldn't be the same in all data centers so there is obviously some data I'd want to exclude.

Initial forum search I didn't see any recent questions or answers.

Thanks!

[abrist]

You are asking for a few different things. XI user settings are stored in postgres and cannot really be shared between XI installs. Object configs are stored in mysql and can be offloaded, but It is not suggested for multiple installs to share the mysql db. You could make use of the static directory for those configs that are shared, though you will not be able to edit them with the XI CCM/web ui - only from the cli (as you would with core). You could then rsync the static configs between servers. My concern is that any of these methods may lead to even more work instead of less.

[jzimmerman]

I was afraid that was the answer.

I know there are multiple silos of configs and info involved. I was just hoping for a better way of dealing with it across multiple servers than what I was seeing.

We are implementing Puppet at the same time, so I can deal with the static configs with that at least.

Thanks.

[tmcdonald]

Puppet's a good choice, or rsync as abrist mentioned if you just need a lightweight solution. In regards to the configs not being editable in the CCM, I believe if you put them in /usr/local/nagios/etc/import you can within the Nagios XI web interface pull them right into the CCM. Feel free anyone to correct me if I am wrong.