Nagios: Scaling to monitor larger networks

[Marc Powell]

For both of you, I've had success just upping the input buffer limit. It
may not be good programming, but it works --

xodtemplate.h:#define MAX_XODTEMPLATE_INPUT_BUFFER    49152

--
Marc 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Hopkins [mailto:dan.hopkins at uk.easynet.net]
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 10:05 AM
> To: 'Hirbour, John'; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> I'm suprised this works - I've tried before (and just re-tried now to
> confirm), only the last members line is detected, any preceeding hosts
> generate warnings of the:
> 
> Warning: Host 'xxx' is not a member of any host groups!
> 
> variety. (This is with nagios 1.3) Have you tested your config with a
> nagios
> -v ?
> 
> fyi: our workaround was to generate multiple hostgroups when detecting
> members lines breaching the 8192 byte line length (our config is
generated
> from a database) It's hardly ideal, but a short term fix.
> 
> --
> Dan Hopkins
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hirbour, John [mailto:John.Hirbour at dsl.net]
> > Sent: 31 October 2003 15:09
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios: Scaling to monitor larger
networks
> >
> >
> > Not to answer my own question but I found out if you're
> > defining a host
> > group you can just split the members line and list as many as you
want
> >
> > define hostgroup {
> > 	hostgroup_name 		my_group
> > 	alias 			my group
> > 	members			host1, host2 host3
> > 	members			host4, host5, host6
> > 	contact_groups		me
> > }
> > On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 23:15, Hirbour, John wrote:
> > > Can anyone speak to the scaling of nagios when you want to monitor
~
> > > 4000 hosts ?
> > >
> > > I'm currently working on setting up 3 collector and 2
> > display stations
> > > to monitor our network. I've already run into issues where
> > I can't list
> > > too many "hosts" in a "host_group" because there seems to
> > be a limit to
> > > how many characters you can have in the members section of a host
> > > definition.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts/comments would be appreciated.


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