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Changing a remote site to become the central

Changing a remote site to become the central

Owned by Anastasios Thomaidis
Sometimes, you may want to change a remote site to become a central site.

LAST TESTED ON CHECKMK 2.3.0P1

Table of Contents

Getting Started

Background information regarding this subject is available on our:


Step-by-step guide

  1. On the central site: Go to Setup → Distributed Monitoring → Edit the remote connection and deselect 'Disable configuration via Setup on this site' (if selected)

    Now your remote site has its own configuration/wato.
    Screenshot of editing a remote site connection. Deselected disable configuration via setup on this site.

  2. Now you need to move all hosts from central to remote

    On the central site: Go to Setup -> Hosts and edit all hosts. You need to select 'Monitored on Site' for your remote site.

    Please save and activate the changes.
    Screenshot of bulk edit of host. Setting monitored on site to remote.

    • You need to do a rediscovery for all hosts
    • Now your remote site is monitoring all your hosts

  3. On the central site: Go to Distributed Monitoring and remove the remote Connection.

  4. On the remote site: Go to Distributed Monitoring and add create a connection for the central site.

     If you enable 'configuration push,' the remote site will override the central site. Please ensure you have all rules/settings already on your remote site.

  5. After activating all changes, the central site is not monitoring any host. Please repeat step 2 if you want to monitor the host via central.

  6. Now you've successfully promoted remote to central.