On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Mykola S. Grechukh <g...@altlinux.org>wrote:
> Hello,
>
Hi,
>
> Is it really impossible for Poller to have own named pipe ?
>
> I'm doing research of how to migrate big distributed nagios/check_mk
> system to Shinken distributed cluster. Check_mk runs itself as single
> active check per host, which in turn provide service states to nagios
> command pipe as passive checks.
>
> So it seems that i have to run Receiver near every Poller instance. It
> could be a problem from point of consistency and fault tolerance -
> i.e. if receiver dies, scheduler continues to assign check-mk tasks to
> this poller :(
>
> Quite easy to workaround it, although...
>
Yes, the reveiver is a way of course, but can be indeed a problem if the
receiver die when the poller stay up.
I added in the sources to the CommandFile module a way to be load in the
poller daemon, so you can just add this module to your distant poller with
this.
But I'm wondering how this passive way will scale. Shinken is done for huge
active checks, and the check_mk way is an hack to avoid Nagios low active
way by using a "less low" passive one. When you test it, look at the
arbiter activity. I think for a middle size installation there will be no
problems at all, but for a large one it can be a problem and we will have
to find solutions to enhance this.
A perfect way can be to wrote a check_mk poller module of course, so there
will be no more "passive" way for all of this, but it can take some times
to get it working (but check_mk is in Python, so it's definitively possible
:) ).
Regards,
Jean
> --
> Mykola Grechukh
>
> CTO, Satelliz-Ukraine
>
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