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If money wasn't a concern, what would be the optimal install for a large monitoring environment?

Physical server with XI and Fusion on it with XI VMs as needed feeding back into the physical server? We plan on doing agent installs on all machines. If it was your choice and money wasn't too big of a factor what would you recommend?

costanza2k1 wrote:If money wasn't a concern, what would be the optimal install for a large monitoring environment?

Physical server with XI and Fusion on it with XI VMs as needed feeding back into the physical server?

Yep, and if money isn't of concern, I would spend some on VERY fast disks and plenty of RAM.

Setup a RAM Disk
and
Offloading MySQL To A Remote Server

Then setup your satellite XI servers to send outbound transfer results to the Master.

scottwilkerson wrote:

costanza2k1 wrote:If money wasn't a concern, what would be the optimal install for a large monitoring environment?

Physical server with XI and Fusion on it with XI VMs as needed feeding back into the physical server?

Yep, and if money isn't of concern, I would spend some on VERY fast disks and plenty of RAM.

Setup a RAM Disk
and
Offloading MySQL To A Remote Server

Then setup your satellite XI servers to send outbound transfer results to the Master.

Excellent! That sounds like a plan!

Was there anything else you needed or was that all? Bear in mind that if money truly is no issue, we have some holidays coming up and our office could use a fleet of quadcopters =D

tmcdonald wrote:Was there anything else you needed or was that all? Bear in mind that if money truly is no issue, we have some holidays coming up and our office could use a fleet of quadcopters =D

haha! Ok maybe money is an issue after all...we're getting ready to not buy maint. on an enterprise solution so getting a physical server with enterprise licensing makes sense as it's fractional to the maint. cost. I appreciate your help! I'll keep you guys posted on how we do.

From just my reading it doesn't look like Fusion can be installed on the same server as my XI physical server. Am I wrong in assuming that Fusion is just doing heartbeat check on Nagios' instances? Doesn't seem like Fusion needs to be a big bulky server and can run on a VM. Guess I was wrong and still have questions.

costanza2k1,

you're correct, it is not recommended to install Nagios Fusion on the same box as NagiosXI.

The goal of fusion is simply to tie all of your existing NagiosXI and Nagios Core interfaces into one front-end. There is no additional "heartbeat" checking. If you have many XI instances (or core), Fusion allows you to aggregate the views for all hosts and services in one place.

-Yancy

yancy wrote:costanza2k1,

you're correct, it is not recommended to install Nagios Fusion on the same box as NagiosXI.

The goal of fusion is simply to tie all of your existing NagiosXI and Nagios Core interfaces into one front-end. There is no additional "heartbeat" checking. If you have many XI instances (or core), Fusion allows you to aggregate the views for all hosts and services in one place.

-Yancy

So a smaller VM is just fine for it right? Do you know of any sizing documents out there for it?

costanza2k1,

Yes a smaller VM would be just fine for fusion since it doesn't do any check processing itself.

http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtop ... =16&t=8989

I'll have this added to our architecture overview guide of fusion so others can find it.

-Yancy

If I have multiple XI servers with Fusion on a VM, can I run all of the MySQL DBs on one server?