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NMIS can be used to monitor many services, including the services that it depends on itself. This can be useful in root cause analysis if NMIS has problems.

opHA Standard

When running multiple servers utilizing opHA common pratice is to have MAIN Primary monitor all the pollers and itself. If available it is also recommend to have a primary "watch the watcher", i.e. monitor the Main Primary and the pollers as well.

Accessing the Services List

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