NRPE question

[shadih rahman]

Unfortunately my problem is that its happenning on a remote client machine
rather than nagios server.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:32 PM, <patrick.morris at hp.com> wrote:

> Hi shadih!
>
> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, shadih rahman wrote:
>
> > I have thought about this solution but I have an issue with this.  Let us
> say the machine has high load.   Now, I presume, we are checking the number
> of "nrpe" processes on client host via nrpe.  If the load is high, the check
> for number of nrpe processes will fail, which in turn would fork possibly
> another nrpe process?  Please advise on this.  Thanks
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:34 PM, <patrick.morris at hp.com<mailto:
> patrick.morris at hp.com>> wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, shadih rahman wrote:
> >
> > > I am running nrpe as daemon rather than xinetd.  I have one server
> which showed high load and all nrpe checks where showing UNKNOWN.  Later on
> I logged into the box and I saw there were 382 nrpe process running.  Can
> someone shed some light into this?  Thanks
> >
> > Happens here all the time.  I have a Nagios check that looks for
> > high numbers of NRPE processes and restarts it if it goes out of
> > control.
> >
> > I'm not sure what causes it; the brute force method we're using here has
> > been enough to keep it under control.
>
> The check I was referring to runs on the Nagios boxes (since that's
> where I see nrpe go out of control).  So I'm doing a local check that
> does nothing but look for NRPE in the process list; it doesn't use NRPE
> to do that.
>



-- 
Cordially,
Shadhin Rahman
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