too much passive check status coming in

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 11/18/2010 03:11 AM, marc pascual wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Andreas Ericsson<ae at op5.se>  wrote:
> 
>> On 11/17/2010 08:11 PM, marc pascual wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have too much passive checks coming in (12*880) to the point that some
>>> aren't getting processed by nagios. Now I've decided to rewrite the
>> plugins
>>> so that it will only report state changes via nsca. (OK-to-CRIT and
>>> CRIT-to-OK). The problem I see with this move is that, if something
>>> temporarily hampers an nsca communication (e.g. transient high load, or
>>> temporary network blip), then there's no guaranteed way for nagios to
>> know
>>> the real state of the service on the next check cycle. I wonder if anyone
>>> out there has implemented their checks similar to this, and what
>> solutions
>>> or workarounds were implemented to make sure that nagios will eventually
>> get
>>> updated with the correct states.
>>>
>>
>> You want freshness checks. Browse the nagios documentation for it and
>> you'll
>> find what you're looking for.
>>
>> Welcome to the list btw. It seems things finally worked out for you.
>>
>>
>>
> But freshness checks imply that checks should be coming in at a regular
> interval (unless I'm mistaken). In this case, I don't have an idea when the
> next check result will come as I'm only sending results on state changes.
> 

Ah, right. In that case, check out Merlin. It replaces NSCA with a much
faster protocol for transmitting check-data, and you get failover for
free in case the poller node goes to lunch.

http://www.op5.org/community/plugin-inventory/op5-projects/merlin

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