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Distributed monitoring best practices?
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2016 10:33 am
by daveinvb
What is the recommended method for distributed monitoring using the current version of Nagios? I've seen the document (
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/gen ... utions.pdf) listing multiple ways but someone has also said that mod_gearmon is the current preferred method.
I would like to use a master Nagios XI server controlling multiple Nagios Core servers, each based on a geographical region. Is this possible, and if so, what is the best method to accomplish it?
Re: Distributed monitoring best practices?
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2016 11:43 am
by brdr
Hi daveinvb,
I'm a XI customer that is running XI server (w gearmand) with 2 mod_gearman worker servers in the Boston area. We use XI 5.2.2 and mod_gearman 1.5.
Across the country (and other parts of the world) we use this XI instance in Boston to monitor network devices for our other sites, but have installed a separate XI instance for the other sites to monitor their servers/services. We then use Fusion to monitor the entire set of XI instances.
Happy to share details of our XI / Mod Gearman config.
brdr
Re: Distributed monitoring best practices?
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2016 2:47 pm
by bwallace
- thanks brdr -
mod_gearman is certainly the recommended method and yes, Nagios Fusion will enable you to have a centralized UI for multiple installations of XI and/or Core.
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios_XI.pdf
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.p ... ategory=66