Hi everybody, has anyone of you ever tried to benchmark NRPE and NSCA performance? It's acknowledged that passive checks (NSCA) move the load from Nagios server to monitored machines, so from a Nagios point of view they need less resources. But how much less?
I'm trying to design a distributed monitoring setup to hold a total amount of 15-20K services, so I have: - 1 master Nagios server with ALL 15K services (passive) - an undefined number of slave server each monitoring a portion of the 15K services The slaves perform the checks and report the result to the master. This is the point: how should the slave perform the checks? NRPE or NSCA? I thought about some pros and cons, here is the result: NRPE PROS: centralized configuration, less error prone NRPE CONS: centralized load causes limited scalability NSCA PROS/CONS: the opposite Any other suggestion or benchmarking tool/approach would be appreciated. Bye Maurizio Pinotti ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ 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
