Nagios CRASHING - Passive External Commands

[Jim Mozley]

Fred Reimers wrote:

> I have an external script running FPING against 3200 hosts and writing the results to the Nagios external command file.  
> 
> Sometimes it works and other times Nagios crashes.
> 
> [1074873519] EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;0681-Frame;PING;0;PING OK - 208.252.129.57 is alive (74.4 ms)
> [1074873519] EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;0681-Server;PING;0;PING OK - 10.136.26.2 is alive (89.8 ms)
> [1074873519] EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;0681-VPN;PING;0;PING OK - 10.136.26.1 is alive (90.2 ms)
> [1074873519] EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;0687-Frame;PING;0;PING OK - 65.202.155.77 is alive (67.5 ms)
> [1074873519] EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;0687-Server;PING;0;PING OK - 10.138.24.2 is alive (80.9 ms)
> [1074873519] EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;0687-VPN;PING;0;PING OK - 10.138.24.1 is alive (83.3 ms)
> [1074873519] EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;0689-V90;PING;0;PING OK - 63.110.74.154 is alive (228 ms)
> [1074873519] EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;0689-Server;PING;0;PING OK - 10.133.46.2 is alive (258 ms)
> [1074873519] EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;0689-VPN;PING;0;PING OK - 10.133.46.1 is alive (266 ms)
> [1074873519] EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;
> [1074873519] Caught SIGSEGV, shutting down...
> 
> Nagios appears to be truncating the command sent to it.  I checked and there's no problem with the external command file.
> 
> I'm writing directly to the command file from the same machine.
> 
> Is there anything information on throttling passive checks through the external command file to keep Nagios from crashing??
> 
> Right now I'm just pinging the hosts and have 3200 services. This monitoring requirement is going to expand to 7200 hosts with 21000 service checks.
> 
> 
> Help!!

What about only submitting the command to Nagios in the event of an 
exception, i.e. the ping fails?


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