checking if nrpe is running at all.

[Steve Traylen]

Hi,

  I am checking 30 things or so on 400 nodes via nrpe excecutions.

  What I see sometimes particularly when a host is dead but still in a pingable state
  is that if nrpe can not be reached then I get 30 failiures from each of
  things I am monitoring that nrpe has timed out.

  I really only want to see one message that nrpe is not available.

  So I thought I would make a nrpe check to see if nrpe was running at all
  and then make this a service dependency for all the others.

  However when I came to make the service dependency I see I have to specify host names

  eg

  define servicedependency{
 	host_name			WWW1
 	service_description		Apache Web Server
 	dependent_host_name		WWW1
 	dependent_service_description	Main Web Site
 	execution_failure_criteria	n
 	notification_failure_criteria	w,u,c
  }

  and so if I want to do this I would have to make 30*400 entries to do what I wanted. Making
  30 entries would have been okay.

  Is there a better of way of doing what I want to do?

    Steve

-- 
Steve Traylen
s.traylen at rl.ac.uk
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/



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