Core 4 Remote Workers

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 02/05/2013 06:04 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> 
> So it almost seems like you could have a remote worker installed on
> each host, and just have it check that one host…other than you'd have
> a ton of remote workers, what would be the downside of doing that?

None, apart from the fact that in that case you'd probably rather have
each worker containing its own scheduler and submitting its results
once every minute or so. Preferrably via udp to avoid having to
maintain a bazillion network sockets. We'll hit the open filelimit
really quickly otherwise, and the various input polling interfaces
tend to fall apart or grind to a halt when handling more than X
sockets (where X is usually a number between 1024 and 32768).

> Removes the need for nrpe or other options for remote checking…
> 

It does indeed. It also removes the need for a powerful monitoring
server. With "onsite" workers and a special-purpose snmp worker
(or two. Or three), you could monitor hundreds of thousands of
hosts from a laptop.

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