Nagios: Scaling to monitor larger networks

[Dan Hopkins]

Erk! My mistake, this should of course be nagios-1.1 (as a freebsd port
it's nagios-1.1_3) Sorry about the confusion :)

-- 
Dan

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From: Jason Martin [mailto:jhmartin at toger.us] 
Sent: 31 October 2003 18:47
To: Dan Hopkins
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios: Scaling to monitor larger networks

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Nagios 1.3? Where did you get that?

- -Jason Martin

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Dan Hopkins wrote:

> 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.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > ~#
> > > John Hirbour
> > > OSS Development
> > > DSL.net
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