Generating availability report in Nagios 3.0.6

Paul Corcoran paul.corcoran.mlist at gmail.com
Mon May 18 10:53:32 CEST 2009


Thanks for the replies.

Looking through nagios.cfg it seems that Nagios is logging ALL passive
checks.

Will setting this value to 0 still allow us to get meaningful availability
reports?

Thanks,

Paul

2009/5/15 Marc Powell <marc at ena.com>

>
> On May 15, 2009, at 4:46 AM, Paul Corcoran wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've recently completed a distributed installation of Nagios
> > consisting of a master server acting as the web front end for Nagios
> > and 2 slave servers that do all the service checking.
> >
> > Currently we are monitoring approx 500 hosts and perform approx 3300
> > service checks.
> >
> > Nagios performs daily rotation of the logs and they are approx 250MB
> > in size for each 24 hours period.
>
>
> What in the world are you logging and how volatile is your network?
> 8500+ services here --
>
> 1.7M    nagios-05-10-2009-00.log
> 1.9M    nagios-05-11-2009-00.log
> 1.9M    nagios-05-12-2009-00.log
> 2.3M    nagios-05-13-2009-00.log
> 2.2M    nagios-05-14-2009-00.log
> 5.6M    nagios-05-15-2009-00.log
>
> Seems to me that you need to tune down your logging settings...
>
> [nagios at noctools etc]$ grep log_ nagios.cfg
> log_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log
> log_rotation_method=d
> log_archive_path=/usr/local/nagios/var/archives
> log_notifications=1
> log_service_retries=1
> log_host_retries=1
> log_event_handlers=1
> log_initial_states=0
> log_external_commands=1
> log_passive_checks=0
>
>
>
> --
> Marc
>
>
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