Decreasing the number of false warnings

Christopher McCrory chrismcc at pricegrabber.com
Tue Apr 29 22:27:34 CEST 2003


Hello...


On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 12:31, Nicholas Bernstein wrote:
> I have a problem where a lot of servers will go critical with the
> ping_check all at once. I'm assuming that this is due to load on the
> nagios server, and was wondering if any of you had some recommendations
> as to how to get these to go away. The machine it's running on is a rh
> linux box with no other services running on it, aside from ntp, and a
> samba share of the config files so it's easy for the windows admin to
> make changes. It's a 330 mhz box with a new 120 gig (fast) hd, and a
> 10/100 nic. I would like to keep the ping checks fairly close together,
> and was wondering what you all thought about the best way to tune it to
> not give the warnings. 
> 

I suspect you are having a network problem, hence the warnings

If you are monitoring other services than ping, reduce the ping
interval.  If check_http, etc works then why bother with lots of pings.

Also, you might try fping.



> Thanks,
> Nick
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