Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

2009-01-28 Thread Rahul Nabar
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Jake jakepau...@gmail.com wrote: I use ping as both a service check and a host check because i want to ping all of the time to measure latency, etc. I wouldn't think so much about eliminating service checks that aren't directly redundant as much as making

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

2009-01-28 Thread Rahul Nabar
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Kyle O'Donnell kyleodonn...@gmail.comwrote: I use service deps. Most of my services are nrpe checks and I create a dep on nrpe. If a check comes back critical (or which ever state you choose to execute the dep) it does an nrpe check, if nrpe returns

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

2009-01-28 Thread Marc Powell
On Jan 27, 2009, at 5:20 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote: I set up my nagios system to monitor 256 odd nodes each with about 6 services (direct and NRPE). It is working fine but my load averages have started edging upwards. Not critical yet but I wanted some tips to make things more efficient

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

2009-01-28 Thread Rahul Nabar
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Mathieu Gagné mga...@iweb.com wrote: We have +2000 hosts and +4700 services configured on one of our Nagios instance. Load average is between 1.3 an 2.0 which I find acceptable. Wow. That's way bigger than what I have. Mine's a cluster of 256 machines and

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

2009-01-28 Thread Rahul Nabar
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Marc Powell m...@ena.com wrote: Just out of curiosity, what is the magnitude of the 'edging upwards' that you are seeing? Its not bad right now .But the trend is what I am wary about. My load factors are around 3. But I am still planning on adding more

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

2009-01-28 Thread Kyle O'Donnell
no active host checks just active service checks (few passive too) To disable change the host definition/template option active_checks_enabled 0 Host checks are done on demand when any service returns a critical state (maybe a non-OK state I can't remember). This is default nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

2009-01-28 Thread Marc Powell
On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz dual core. 2 GB RAM Its about 5 years old now I think. For comparison, my most heavily loaded data collector is a 2x Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 (2.1Ghz), 2GB RAM. It is running -- - Nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

2009-01-28 Thread Rahul Nabar
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Marc Powell m...@ena.com wrote: On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz dual core. 2 GB RAM Its about 5 years old now I think. A minor correction. Mine is just a hyperthreaded machine. I don't think it is two real

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

2009-01-28 Thread Mathieu Gagné
Hi, Rahul Nabar wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Marc Powell m...@ena.com mailto:m...@ena.com wrote: On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz dual core. 2 GB RAM Its about 5 years old now I think. A minor correction.

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

2009-01-28 Thread Rahul Nabar
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Mathieu Gagné mga...@iweb.com wrote: According to cpubenchmark.net, my el cheapo CPU is better than yours: Intel Xeon 2.80GHz Score: 495 Rank: 281 Link: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+2.80GHz Intel Core2 4300 @ 1.80GHz Score:

[Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

2009-01-27 Thread Rahul Nabar
I set up my nagios system to monitor 256 odd nodes each with about 6 services (direct and NRPE). It is working fine but my load averages have started edging upwards. Not critical yet but I wanted some tips to make things more efficient and see if there are things I might have done ineffeciently.

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

2009-01-27 Thread Jake
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Rahul Nabar rpna...@gmail.com wrote: I set up my nagios system to monitor 256 odd nodes each with about 6 services (direct and NRPE). It is working fine but my load averages have started edging upwards. Not critical yet but I wanted some tips to make things

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

2009-01-27 Thread Mathieu Gagné
Hi, Rahul Nabar wrote: I set up my nagios system to monitor 256 odd nodes each with about 6 services (direct and NRPE). It is working fine but my load averages have started edging upwards. Not critical yet but I wanted some tips to make things more efficient and see if there are things I

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

2009-01-27 Thread Kyle O'Donnell
I use service deps. Most of my services are nrpe checks and I create a dep on nrpe. If a check comes back critical (or which ever state you choose to execute the dep) it does an nrpe check, if nrpe returns critical (or whichever state you choose) it stops executing the services dependant on