Using AWS Elastic File System for log server data

[davehu]

Hi, I found the documentation that explains how to change the path where Nagios Log Server stores it's data files http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... Server.pdf. My question is whether Nagios experts would expect any problems if you point it at the newly announced AWS Elastic File System, which appears to be an NFS mounted file system that is highly available and redundant. The nice thing is I could likely have an AMI that mounts this file system when it starts, and the data there seems better protected than an EBS volume. Any thoughts?

[jolson]

We have not tested AWS Elastic File System, however while Nagios Log Server may be functional using network paths, for peak performance we highly recommend local disks. Using EFS for backups, however, seems like an ideal use case. Please review the documentation here: http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... enance.pdf.

In this case, you would mount the EFS share to a similar mount-point across all of your instances (/efsbackup) and doing so would provide a redundant and scalable backup solution for your cluster.

Best,


Jesse