Hello Ryan, I do not know what is organization of your network, but maybe you could take a look into service/host dependency. It depends on your network organization, but I think it could help
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/dependencies.html its purpose is to suppress notifications in case "main" host is down, in such case you get only notification about that problem. As I beleive that you have some gateway/router and in case it has some problems you are getting many notifications, and I think it is rara that many hosts have some local problem at same time Hope this helps Nice regards, Arlen On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Ryan Bowlby<rbowlb...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > We are experiencing issues with Nagios notifications. Apparently when a large > amount of services become critical and trigger notifications the system all > but stops processing new service check results (passive). The "last check > times" in the web interface stop updating until notifications are disabled. > > Tailing the nagios.log file during this issue shows mostly notifications and > hardly any check results being processed. As soon as I temporarily disable > notifications - system wide - the passive check results literally fly off the > screen, and all the stale results in the web interface clear up quickly. > > How does everyone handle this issue? Obviously the notifications are a > bottleneck. Has anyone configured notifications to be dropped in a file or > fifo to be processed by an external daemon? Something like OCP daemon if > anyone is familiar with it. > > Obviously parent child relationships would prove useful in curbing the > notifications, but implementation of relationships is a while off (5 D.C.s > lot's a data to have to collect). Any suggestions would be greatly > appreciated! > > -Ryan B. > > ========================================================================== > > FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE amd64, Nagios 3.0 w/ NDO2DB 1.4b7 > Total Hosts: 3741, Total Services: 9321 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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
