[naemon-dev] shadownaemon

[Daniel Wittenberg]

Interesting idea, looks like it’s updating all 200 sites every 3 seconds if my quick glance was right?  Does it do them in parallel?  Serial?

Of course I think any use of /tmp should go :)

Dan


On Mar 6, 2014, at 3:03 PM, Sven Nierlein <Sven.Nierlein at Consol.de> wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> I am working with a client which has reached almost 200 cores across the globe
> and Thruk is starting to become slow when viewing all instances into one
> combined view. Since all core have livestatus already enabled, i wrote a small
> program which fetches hosts and services by livestatus, writes out a naemon
> config and starts and emtpy naemon core which loads the livestatus broker.
> It then pulls in changed host and service status over livestatus as well as performance
> counter from livestatus itself. So instead of 200 remote connections, thruk
> has 200 local unix socket connections and is much faster again.
> 
> Basically it works like this:
> %> ./shadownaemon -i remotehost:6557 -o /tmp/cache/inst1 -l .../naemon-livestatus/src/livestatus.o
> started caching remotehost:6557 to /tmp/cache/inst1/live
> 
> Besides starting the cache manually, its planed to do that transparently from Thruk.
> Logs and Commands are excluded from the cache and have to be fetched directly from the the
> remote instance but in such large setups, Thruk uses a mysql cache anyway.
> 
> The source is in my branch for now:
> https://github.com/sni/naemon-core/blob/shadow/naemon/shadownaemon.c
> 
> So the main question is, do we want to maintain that thing besides naemon and the
> main repository? I noticed there are some tools already, like ex. oconfsplit.
> 
> There are still a few things to work out and there are some todos left on top of that
> file, but i hope you get the idea.
> 
> Any ideas or remarks on this?
> 
> Sven
>