Decrease network usage (check hosts and services)

[Dave Breiland]

Wouldn't "fping" be a good alternative?  I believe it only sends one packet.


Dave


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Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 3:03 PM
To: Rivanor P. Soares
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Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Decrease network usage (check hosts and
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    Rivanor> But it's generating too much traffic in my network (~14MB in a
    Rivanor> day). This is not good.  What does anyone suggest?

Unless your system is frequently unavailable, this seems very high.  A ping
packet is typically under 100 bytes.  Let's assume it's 128 bytes to be
generous.  Five packets sent would be 640 bytes.  Running check_ping every
five minutes means it's run 288 times per day, generating under 200 kbytes
per host.  Is it 14MB for one host or for all hosts you're checking?

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