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Hi,

i have two servers of NagiosXI one is live and second is backup server. now i would want to have backup server should sync with live server. e.g if any changes has been done in live server that is server add, deltete, that should reflet in backup server.
rsync and crontab can be used ?

anyone has done it . please share your views.
thnx in advance.

There are many ways to go about setting up a high availability Nagios solution. We are currently working on testing and documenting a simple solution using DRBD and cron jobs. Other popular solutions include DRBD+Heartbeat, VMware's vMotion, and many others. Some distributed monitoring solutions also incorporate certain aspects of high availability solutions.

Unfortunately I can't help you with any specific setup instructions at this time, but we will have documents available soon that cover this sort of thing. If you figure out something that works for you, please consider sharing it on exchange.nagios.org, because this is something that gets asked a lot and everyone has different requirements for it. We cannot possibly come up with a supported solution that satisfies everyone, so any information you can contribute will make it easier on whoever comes after you.