Nagios Support Forum

A very general question...

Is it wise to consider running Nagios on a vm rather than a standalone system with its own UPS?
It seems to me the tool that monitors other systems should not be virtualized or running alongside the services it is to monitor, but opening the question up to the users/experts.

Apologies if this is the wrong forum...

Regards,
Eachaus

We distribute Nagios XI as a virtual machine to ensure you get it up and running quickly. The nice thing about VMs is that you can create snapshots and restore if something goes wrong. However, you need to keep in mind that you must meet (and probably exceed) the hardware requirements, needed to run XI. How fast your network is going to grow? Running out of space on a VM happens way too often.

Hope this helps.

Thank you lmiltchev. From your response it appears not outrageous to run Nagios on the systems being monitored.

The admins assure me there's enough horsepower,

I was just curious whether it was more wise to run the monitor on a separate, hi-reliability standalone system, on an independent UPS and network, so that it could monitor the critical systems as they 'go down' as it were.

Thanks again.

+eh