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[Rhugga]

Marc Powell wrote:

>Rhugga <mailto:nagios-user at sandiego420.com> wrote:
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>>Marc Powell wrote:
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>>>Rhugga <mailto:nagios-user at sandiego420.com> wrote:
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>>>>Also, just curious, does anyone use nagios to monitor large
>>>>enterprise environments? Just so many issues already just trying
>>>>to get the thing compiled and a vanilla config working, just
>>>>raises some red flags to me. 
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>>>Yes, currently 1783 hosts (host checking disabled) and 2594
>>>services of which the vast majority are routers monitored over a
>>>WAN. 4 distributed nagios data collectors using NSCA to report back
>>>to 2 central nagios hosts, 1 with postgres DB backend and 1 with
>>>flat-file backend. After some minor tweaking I consider it the most
>>>robust and flexible monitoring system I've ever used.
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>>>--
>>>Marc
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>>Yea, my environment is about twice that large (less routers since we
>>are mainly in 1 location) and I was trying to use opennms but it just
>>couldn't handle the load. (it's Java so no confusion as to why it
>>couldn't handle the load) Good to know that it can handle enterprise
>>loads before I spend more cycles trying to get it to work. Also,
>>router checks are much less overhead than the host-based checks, of
>>which are the main composition of my intended use. (ie a router check
>>may only be a simple ping where as each host I have might have 20
>>service checks per)        
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>>Just curious, what is the OS of your nagios systems and if Linux,
>>what kernel and version of glibc? Also, do you have your ./configure
>>used when you built nagios?  
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>They're all Redhat 7.3 ---
>Linux betelgeuse 2.4.20-20.7smp #1 SMP Mon Aug 18 14:46:14 EDT 2003 i686
>unknown
>gcc-2.96-112
>-- With Flat Text File Backend
>./configure --with-cgiurl=/cgi --with-htmurl=/ 
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>-- With Postgres Database Backend
>./configure --with-cgiurl=/cgi --with-htmurl=/ --with-pgsql-xdata
>--with-pgsql-lib=/usr/local/pgsql/lib
>--with-pgsql-inc=/usr/local/pgsql/include --prefix=/usr/local/nagios-db
>--disable-statusmap --disable-statuswrl
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>We've disabled all host checking because in our environment, we can have
>over 50 devices down at any given time (especially during summer; we're
>mostly monitoring routers at schools) and the increased latency caused
>by host checks can be devastating during mass outages due to storms,
>etc. I would also encourage you to _not_ use the old style configs. They
>will not be supported at all in 2.0+ and the template style offers
>significantly more flexibility and configuration shortcuts. You'll also
>find that those pages that display all the hosts (status overview, etc)
>are slow to load unless you've applied the chained hash patch. 2.0 fixes
>that as well.
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>--
>Marc
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Okay thanks... I am a big fan of  pgsql as well but everyone jumped on 
the mysql bandwagon so I use it just to keep my skills current. (same 
thing with Red Hat, I prefer SuSE but use RH just to maintain skills 
because most jobs will be using RH)

Anyway, thanks for the info.
Rhugga



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