Change max_concurrent_checks for a service?

Andreas Ericsson ae at op5.se
Tue Jul 6 11:25:17 CEST 2010


On 07/05/2010 05:44 PM, Daniel E. Strezov 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.
> 

You want to set the parallellize_check variable to 0 for that particular
check. That will cause nagios to ensure that no other checks are running
at the same time, hogging the bandwidth you're trying to test.

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