Change max_concurrent_checks for a service?

[Jim Avery]

On 5 July 2010 16:44, Daniel E. Strezov <DStrezov at postbank.bg> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to find out a way to change the max_concurrent_checks
> parameter, but just for one particular service. The reason I need this
> is that this service checks the available bandwidth to a remote host by
> generating traffic for some given time. Running many service checks at
> the same time will cause the 100Mbps interface of the monitoring server
> to get jammed. These traffic checks run daily in a 2-hours window with
> 30 mins check period and under normal circumstances each of them takes
> about 10 secs.

I would run those checks from a script in cron, and have them send the
results as passive checks to Nagios.  That way you can guarantee at
what time they will run.

See:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/passivechecks.html

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