NDOUtils 1.4 Stability

[Ton Voon]

On 11 Apr 2007, at 21:20, Patrick Morris wrote:

> 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.

I don't think that is strictly true. Since ndomod is running in the  
same process space as Nagios, a problem with the broker module will  
cause the main nagios process to die too.

However, a failure at ndo2db (that writes to the db) will not affect  
Nagios.

Ton

http://www.altinity.com
T: +44 (0)870 787 9243
F: +44 (0)845 280 1725
Skype: tonvoon



-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null