As pointed out, normal depends on your environment. Some sites only check a handful of things per host; some check more. The bigger issue is if your server can handle the number of checks and in a timely fashion. Look at nagios parameters Max_service_check_spread, max_host_check_spread as well as the various params for individual services such as check_interval
If you have a check that takes a long time to complete, you'll probably want to run it less frequently. If the client were Unix, not windows, you'd have the luxury of being able to run the check on the host in question. This can be done either via cron and have it generate a status file that nagios then checks or using NSCA. On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Joel Brooks <jbro...@oddelement.com> wrote: > hey gang, > > I'm trying to get a sense of what's normal for the number of checks per > host. > > I'm pushing nagios to a number of servers and the list of things I want to > monitor keeps growing. > > For some servers, I've got > 30 checks - some > 50. > > what is "normal" out there? > > is there a practical limit? > > i'm using nagios 3 on centos 5 to monitor windows with nsclient++ 3.8. > > cheers, > > J > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ 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