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Is there a way to sync status.dat between nagios instances?

I know there are tools like "rsync," that would allow you to do this, although it should be noted that the status.dat file is volatile, and it gets created when the nagios process is started. Are you looking at redundancy/failover options?

Hey,
yes I am using rsync alot but this is mainly for the cutover. Basically we're doing a staged migration from old system to a new one and would like the acknowledgements and downtime to by syncd between the old and new system. Probably cant be done

Thanks for the reply.

The other possibility might be to sync the mysql databases, since XI actually uses ndoutils as the event broker, all of that information is stored in the mysql->nagios database. However, we haven't tested this as of yet so I couldn't guarantee that it would work as expected, but I thought I might throw that out there as an idea as well.