question

[Andreas Ericsson]

Kelvin Wu wrote:
> hello,
> 
> i am going to monitor a server which has 500+ sendxms processes and
> each process has its own log file, i want nagios to monitor process is
> running or not, and logfile is too large or not, i am thinking of
> using nrpe or snmp, my question is, will nrpe or snmp daemon be heavy
> loaded if checking 500+ proc and files? or is there any other better
> solution to do these monitoring jobs?
> 

NRPE won't have a problem checking them, since the check_procs plugin 
simply scans a process-table set up by the kernel. The process table 
resides in memory and is really quite small per process. Parsing it is 
not very heavy work. I can't imagine SNMP having a problem with this either.

> thanks
You're welcome.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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