On 11 Apr 2007, at 21:20, Patrick Morris wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Janet Post wrote: > >> Hello Everyone, >> >> I would -really- like to use the NDOUtils for my nagios 2.8 install. >> But the big **DO NOT USE IN PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT** warning is a >> little >> scary. >> >> Here are some questions for you all who are using it (and the >> developers): >> >> 1) is there any outward sign that the NDOMOD module has >> segfaulted? A >> logfile? >> >> 2) Can nagios monitor this itself? Or will a crash in NDOMOD cause >> nagios itself to die as well? (I was thinking of having nagios watch >> for the NDOMOD process, and if it wasn't there, restart >> everything...but >> if nagios goes down too, that obviously won't work) >> >> 3) Any ETA on when NDOUtils will be ready? Losing database >> support was >> one of the reasons I did not want to upgrade to nagios 2.x. Pointing >> the cold spare to a database with up-to-date status information is >> just >> easy! > > Nagios will keep running if ndmomod dies; it just won't log to a > database any more. It's pretty easy to spot the insertion errors in > Nagios's log if/when it happens, or by monitoring the process as you > mentioned.
I don't think that is strictly true. Since ndomod is running in the same process space as Nagios, a problem with the broker module will cause the main nagios process to die too. However, a failure at ndo2db (that writes to the db) will not affect Nagios. Ton http://www.altinity.com T: +44 (0)870 787 9243 F: +44 (0)845 280 1725 Skype: tonvoon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
