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We recently received an alert about disk is 80% full for our Nagios server; I have some questions you guys may help to provide some suggestions.

1. Where the Nagios database/log files are stored so I could understand what the growth will be? or I should add the services for the localhost to monitor it?
2. If we need to have the database in a different location than /usr/local/nagios. Do I need to have a separate file system created on that box to house the Nagios database so we can grow it as needed and it does not impact /usr if it gets low on space?
3. Can I use Oracle instead of MySql for offloading purpose to an external remote server?
3. Any enterprise level practice we could leverage for archiving and backups?

1)database: /var/lib/mysql
log: /usr/local/nagios/var/
By default it also logs to syslog, so /var/log
2)That's up to you, we recommend offloading the database in big environments. If you're not offloading it there is no great use in creating a new filesystem unless it's on separate spindles so as to alleviate IO constraints.
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... Server.pdf
3)No. MySQL is the only supported database.
3)Our internal backup mechanisms ship a "package" wherever you want (local or remote). That package is Nagios in its entirety and is all that needs to be backed up to do a full restore. Is that what you're looking for, or something else?