On May 15, 2009, at 4:46 AM, Paul Corcoran wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently completed a distributed installation of Nagios > consisting of a master server acting as the web front end for Nagios > and 2 slave servers that do all the service checking. > > Currently we are monitoring approx 500 hosts and perform approx 3300 > service checks. > > Nagios performs daily rotation of the logs and they are approx 250MB > in size for each 24 hours period.
What in the world are you logging and how volatile is your network? 8500+ services here -- 1.7M nagios-05-10-2009-00.log 1.9M nagios-05-11-2009-00.log 1.9M nagios-05-12-2009-00.log 2.3M nagios-05-13-2009-00.log 2.2M nagios-05-14-2009-00.log 5.6M nagios-05-15-2009-00.log Seems to me that you need to tune down your logging settings... [nag...@noctools etc]$ grep log_ nagios.cfg log_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log log_rotation_method=d log_archive_path=/usr/local/nagios/var/archives log_notifications=1 log_service_retries=1 log_host_retries=1 log_event_handlers=1 log_initial_states=0 log_external_commands=1 log_passive_checks=0 -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
