Getting Started

Background information regarding this subject is available on our:

Step-by-step guide

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.
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.
- You need to do a rediscovery for all hosts
- Now your remote site is monitoring all your hosts
On the central site: Go to Distributed Monitoring and remove the remote Connection.
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.
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.
Now you've successfully promoted remote to central.