[Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly

2011-07-01 Thread Marc-André Doll
Hi list, I'm starting to have some big perimeter (well, probably not as big as some of yours) on a Nagios and it's starting to be quite delicate to restart/reload it as it takes between 6 and 10 minutes to start scheduling checks again. Is there a way/module/tool to reload the configuration

Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly

2011-07-01 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 07/01/2011 11:48 AM, Marc-André Doll wrote: Hi list, I'm starting to have some big perimeter (well, probably not as big as some of yours) on a Nagios and it's starting to be quite delicate to restart/reload it as it takes between 6 and 10 minutes to start scheduling checks again. Is

Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly

2011-07-01 Thread nag ios
can u let me know the on-fly process in detail. On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se wrote: On 07/01/2011 11:48 AM, Marc-André Doll wrote: Hi list, I'm starting to have some big perimeter (well, probably not as big as some of yours) on a Nagios and it's

Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly

2011-07-01 Thread Jim Avery
On 1 July 2011 16:22, nag ios nagiost...@gmail.com wrote: can u let me know the on-fly process in detail. You can send a HUP signal to the Nagios daemon to tell it to re-read the configuration. Make sure you verify the configs first though: /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v

Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly

2011-07-01 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
To get all checks to run in a shorter amount of time, take a look at reducing max_service_check_spread and max_host_check_spread. You might also be interested in the fast startup options in the documentation. This will also point you to such parameters as use_large_installation_tweaks On

Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly

2011-07-01 Thread Edwin Zoeller
Also, if on Linux OS, make it a service and all you have to do is issue: service Nagios reload -Original Message- From: Jim Avery [mailto:j...@jimavery.me.uk] Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 10:49 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly On 1

Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly

2011-07-01 Thread Gary Every
: Jim Avery [mailto:j...@jimavery.me.uk] Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 10:49 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly On 1 July 2011 16:22, nag ios nagiost...@gmail.com wrote: can u let me know the on-fly process in detail. You can send

Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly

2011-07-01 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly Also, if on Linux OS, make it a service and all you have to do is issue: service Nagios reload -Original Message- From: Jim Avery [mailto:j...@jimavery.me.uk] Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 10:49 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject

Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly

2011-07-01 Thread Jim Avery
On 1 July 2011 20:19, Daniel Wittenberg daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com wrote: If I remember right though this will only re-read what is there, so if you add/remove files it won't pick those up so we just always use a restart. I sometimes add/remove a directive

Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly

2011-07-01 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Avery [mailto:j...@jimavery.me.uk] Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 2:37 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly On 1 July 2011 20:19, Daniel Wittenberg daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com wrote: If I remember right though this will only re-read what