Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-11 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 06/10/2010 07:51 PM, Scott Ward wrote: We are looking to do an large installation of Nagios. Is it possible to monitor over 800 machines and over 14000 services? Has anyone tried doing anything like this? If you have how successful was it and how did you configure it? We have plenty of

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-11 Thread Scott Ward
We are going to be using distributed monitoring for sure. We just cannot decide whether we should use NDO to write directly to the database or us NSCA to send back to the master server. Any suggestions? Is there a frontend that actually uses the information in an NDO db? From what I've read it

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-11 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 06/11/2010 03:04 PM, Scott Ward wrote: We are going to be using distributed monitoring for sure. We just cannot decide whether we should use NDO to write directly to the database or us NSCA to send back to the master server. Any suggestions? Is there a frontend that actually uses the

Re: [Nagios-users] NDOUTILS - Duplicate lines for each service check in servicechecks table (ndoutils 1.4b9)

2010-06-11 Thread shadih rahman
Can someone point out the patch location. I have searched nagios-devel mailing list but could not find it. Thanks in advance. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Michael Friedrich michael.friedr...@univie.ac.at wrote: Øyvind Nordang wrote: Duplicate lines for each service check in

Re: [Nagios-users] Merlin/Ninja perfdata status?

2010-06-11 Thread Frost, Mark {PBC}
-Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 9:29 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation Unless you desperately need performance data from satellite systems handled properly, I'd invite you to give

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-11 Thread Romain Le Merlus
Hi Scott, You can also try Centreon software to manage your different pollers and configuration: http://www.centreon.com Here is an overview of the functioning: http://en.doc.centreon.com/CentreonArchitecture To see how it looks like, here is a web demo: http://demo.centreon.com Best regards.

[Nagios-users] Nagios Postemsg

2010-06-11 Thread steve f
Hello All, I am currently looking for an alternative to using Tivoli , TEC postemsg for a rather large ( 6000 + ) remote environment. I have had great success with Nagios in my small local/remote test environment and the obvious cost savings without having TEC anymore is huge. Can I use the

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-11 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 06/11/2010 04:08 PM, Scott Ward wrote: How does Merlin compare with NDO in terms of resource usage? merlin is fairly lightweight. What little memory its uses resides primarily on the stack and fits well inside the stack of 1MiB. Here's the output of ps wwaux | grep merlin on a master

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Postemsg

2010-06-11 Thread Max
The main things you will not get from Nagios that you almost always get with Tivoli: * High recurring licensing fees * On-site Tivoli consultants :) Nagios does not give you out of the box the visualization dashboards that Tivoli has but with Nagviz you can you make very nice graphical

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-11 Thread Max
I can attest / confirm what Andreas states about the merlin daemon. BTW, Andreas, I just patched our code base to contain your 0.6.7 changes and I will be posting that on Github for you and anyone else interested to check out over the weekend. Our tests so far are showing that with the Merlin

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-11 Thread Max
Our changes to Merlin allow N pollers to all write to the same database without conflicts. -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental

[Nagios-users] Merlin/Ninja

2010-06-11 Thread Giorgio Zarrelli
Well, Talking about Ninja, I installed on a Debian Lennt box. The installation process seemed a bit buggy and I see some problems like with scheduling scripts, but I find Ninja a useful tool. -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-11 Thread Kevin Keane
If you aren't actually using the data from NDO, there is little point in creating the DB. I would probably not use NDO to write directly from the satellites. Here is why: - Double the network traffic. The satellites have to send check results AND database writes. - Less