monitoring 2 servers

[iroy]

I have nagiosxi server software installed on 2 servers - A and B.

And I want server A to also monitor server B.

And server B to monitor server A.

Do I need to install NRPE on the 2 servers.

[mcapra]

NRPE would be one solution. However, the Nagios XI Server configuration wizard doesn't require NRPE to be installed on the remote XI machine. It just uses the Nagios XI credentials.

[bwallace]

The recommended method is to introduce a 3rd "offsite Nagios XI instance" dedicated to monitoring servers A and B - this doc explains how its done. In this scenario you don't need NRPE or any other client side agents as there is a built in component for such.

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... Server.pdf

[scottwilkerson]

You could install the XI Linux Agent
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... _Agent.pdf
which is a version of NRPE and plugins designed to work with the Linux wizard.

Additionally, you can run the Nagios XI Server wizard to get several additional metrics without installing any agent.

[iroy]

thanks all.

[rkennedy]

Are we good to mark this thread as resolved?

[iroy]

yes please

[eloyd]

Before it gets closed, I'd just like to point out that you never said what you wanted to monitor. If you just want A to ping B to see if it's up, then treat B just like any other host. Same for web service, SSH, any anything else that you can check "from the outside."

[bwallace]

Good point eloyd, thanks. Closing this one out now...