Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios plain files vs database storage

2010-09-15 Thread Michael Friedrich
yuris wrote: Could someone please give me an idea what drawbacks I may face if switch from plain nagios3 to ndoutils-nagios3-mysql with 350 - 400 hosts ? Can I store in mysql db only hosts and hostgroups and manipulate them (add/remove) via web interface while keep everything else in old way

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios plain files vs database storage

2010-09-15 Thread C. Bensend
if you are considering an install of ndoutils, make sure it's either a cvs + patched version of 1.4b9 or the old 1.4b7 which runs smooth. current 1.4b9 contains some severe bugs which haven't been fixed for a while now. Hm... I've been running b9 for a year now, and I haven't noticed

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios plain files vs database storage

2010-09-15 Thread Michael Friedrich
C. Bensend wrote: Hm... I've been running b9 for a year now, and I haven't noticed any issues. What is the nature of these issues that you mention? Just because I haven't noticed doesn't mean something bad isn't happening to my data... depends on your data being processed.

[Nagios-users] Nagios plain files vs database storage

2010-09-07 Thread yuris
Hello, I'm using Nagios for several months with plain files setup, and nagiosgrapher. It works pretty nice and I have no problem monitoring ~50 hosts; ~10 service_checks per host. Now I'm thinking about migration of other hosts from Zabbix to Nagios and totally it is going to be ~350 hosts.

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios plain files vs database storage

2010-09-07 Thread Marc Powell
On Sep 7, 2010, at 7:03 AM, yuris wrote: Hello, I'm using Nagios for several months with plain files setup, and nagiosgrapher. It works pretty nice and I have no problem monitoring ~50 hosts; ~10 service_checks per host. Now I'm thinking about migration of other hosts from Zabbix to

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios plain files vs database storage

2010-09-07 Thread Max
Fyi - plain text files are less system intensive than a db - with our standalone instances we monitor about 2k hosts per poller (about 10k active checks). A db back end makes management and command / control easier with large deployments but .not needed for just. 400 hosts. If you want a nice