NDOUtils 1.4 Stability

Patrick Morris patrick.morris at hp.com
Wed Apr 11 22:20:37 CEST 2007


On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Janet Post wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I would -really- like to use the NDOUtils for my nagios 2.8 install.
> But the big **DO NOT USE IN PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT** warning is a little
> scary.
> 
> Here are some questions for you all who are using it (and the
> developers):
> 
> 1) is there any outward sign that the NDOMOD module has segfaulted?  A
> logfile?
> 
> 2) Can nagios monitor this itself?  Or will a crash in NDOMOD cause
> nagios itself to die as well?  (I was thinking of having nagios watch
> for the NDOMOD process, and if it wasn't there, restart everything...but
> if nagios goes down too, that obviously won't work)
> 
> 3) Any ETA on when NDOUtils will be ready?   Losing database support was
> one of the reasons I did not want to upgrade to nagios 2.x.  Pointing
> the cold spare to a database with up-to-date status information is just
> easy!

Nagios will keep running if ndmomod dies; it just won't log to a
database any more.  It's pretty easy to spot the insertion errors in
Nagios's log if/when it happens, or by monitoring the process as you
mentioned.

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