Switching to passive checks instead of activeones?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ivan Fetch
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:49 AM
> To: Marc Powell
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Switching to passive checks instead of
> activeones?
> 
> HI Marc,
> 
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Marc Powell wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-
> >> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ivan Fetch
> >> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 10:41 PM
> >> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> >> Subject: [Nagios-users] Switching to passive checks instead of
active
> >> ones?
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>
> >>     I'm wondering whether anyone has used send_nsca as a primary
> >> "transport" for service checks, and has any experience and
> >> recommendations?
> >
> >
> > I can't talk about writing what essentially appears to be a
mini-nagios
> > to execute plugins on remote hosts but we're using send_nsca to
submit
> > ~4,000 checks every 5 minutes to two central nagios boxen
(distributed
> > architecture) and it's worked great for many years.
> >
> 
>     Are most of your 4000 uses made up of hosts sending results to
your
> two
> Nagios boxes, or the two Nagios boxes cross-sending results to
> one-another?

4 nagios boxen sending results all 4000 results to two other nagios
boxen using the documented Distributed Monitoring. There's really no
difference between what you're proposing and what we're doing other than
the program executing the plugin and calling send_nsca.  My implication
was that there aren't any inherent problems in using nsca/send_nsca.
You'll have to do work to run your plugins and get their output/exit
codes to send_nsca but it'll work fine from there.

--
Marc

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