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Hello,

I've installed Nagios on all 3 of my Ubuntu 12.04 Servers. I monitor them from my Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop (or any computer with a browser). But in order to monitor all 3 of them I have to open 3 browser windows with http://<ipaddress1>/nagios - http://<ipaddress2>/nagios - http://<ipaddress3>/nagios. I tested out NRPE with another system and got it running on the 'monitored' Nagios machine. But when I look at the browser page it only shows my localhost. Not the 'monitored' machine as well.
For my set up here is there a way to monitor servers 1-3 on the same Nagios browser page on my desktop? I keep getting routed back to NRPE but it seems more like I'm just getting access to whether or not NRPE is installed on the remote machine...rather than actual data feedback from the remote machines. I hope that explains it well...I want to be able to monitor 3 servers running Nagios on one browser from my desktop using the convention http://<ipaddress 1-3>/nagios.

This is predominantly the domain of paid solutions, much like ESXi from VMWare is nice and free until you want to manage a group of them.

The solution offered by Nagios for this is: http://www.nagios.com/products/nagiosfusion

You can also do clustering and load balancing with Mod-Gearman or Merlin which are free and work with Nagios core. It really depends if you want the Nagios instances to be independent of one another.

I figured out how to do it. Although I am looking into Nagios Fusion as a central Monitoring site, I simply went into the commands.cfg and created a host template, a few define hosts, and a few commands and I am up and runnning; monitoring 3 different machines all from the same Nagios browser page. I'm running one as a NRPE Server which monitors itself and two other machines. Works awesome at this point.

oh, I completely misunderstood the question glad you worked it out though!