<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY text=#000000 bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>You need to include the directive which allows service/host checks to be parallelized. I had that same problem when I set up my first Nagios install.</DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> From: nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of James Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:10 AM To: Marc Powell Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios service check latency </DIV> <DIV></DIV>Marc Powell wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE cite=midA7B0A9F02975A74A845FE85D0B95B8FA03929346@misex01.ena.com type="cite"><PRE wrap=""> </PRE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">-----Original Message----- From: <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</A> [<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="mailto:nagios-users">mailto:nagios-users</A>- <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</A>] On Behalf Of Morris, Patrick Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:16 PM To: James; <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</A> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios service check latency </PRE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">Ok i have a question about setting priority to service checks since i have a handful of service check checking clusters of servers i'd like the priority of those service checks as high as for instance...</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>I'm running about 120 services. My Nagios seemed pretty speedy before until recently i dunno what changes i made to do this but most of them should've been just to add a few services. After i noticed pretty delayed notifications and then some latency i started making changes and it still hasn't changed all that much here's my nagios.cfg tho ###############BEGIN CFG############################# cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/services.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/misccommands.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/checkcommands.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/contactgroups.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/contacts.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostgroups.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/servicegroups.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/timeperiods.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/escalations.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/dependencies.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostextinfo.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/serviceextinfo.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/meta_commands.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/meta_contact.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/meta_contactgroup.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/meta_dependencies.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/meta_escalations.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/meta_host.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/meta_hostgroup.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/meta_services.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/meta_timeperiod.cfg resource_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg log_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log object_cache_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache temp_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.tmp status_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat p1_file=/usr/local/nagios/bin/p1.pl aggregate_status_updates=1 status_update_interval=15 nagios_user=nagios nagios_group=nagios enable_notifications=1 execute_service_checks=1 accept_passive_service_checks=1 execute_host_checks=1 accept_passive_host_checks=1 enable_event_handlers=1 log_rotation_method=d log_archive_path=/usr/local/nagios/var/archives/ check_external_commands=1 command_check_interval=-1 command_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd downtime_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/downtime.dat comment_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/comments.dat lock_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock retain_state_information=1 state_retention_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/retention.dat retention_update_interval=60 use_retained_program_state=1 use_retained_scheduling_info=0 log_initial_states=0 sleep_time=0.25 service_inter_check_delay_method=s host_inter_check_delay_method=s service_interleave_factor=s max_concurrent_checks=55 max_service_check_spread=30 max_host_check_spread=30 service_reaper_frequency=10 interval_length=60 auto_rescheduling_interval=30 auto_rescheduling_window=180 enable_flap_detection=0 low_service_flap_threshold=5.0 high_service_flap_threshold=20.0 low_host_flap_threshold=5.0 high_host_flap_threshold=20.0 service_check_timeout=60 host_check_timeout=30 event_handler_timeout=30 notification_timeout=30 ocsp_timeout=5 perfdata_timeout=5 process_performance_data=1 host_perfdata_command=process-host-perfdata service_perfdata_command=process-service-perfdata check_for_orphaned_services=1 service_freshness_check_interval=60 host_freshness_check_interval=60 date_format=us illegal_object_name_chars=`~!$%^&*|'"<>?,()= illegal_macro_output_chars=`~$&|'"<> use_regexp_matching=0 use_true_regexp_matching=0 admin_email=nagios admin_pager=pagenagios ###############END CFG############################# Here's the service template i'm using: ################BEGIN SERVICE TEMPLATE ############## define service{ name local-service service_description local-service use generic-service max_check_attempts 10 normal_check_interval 1 retry_check_interval 1 check_period 24x7 notification_interval 15 notification_period 24x7 notification_options w,c,r notifications_enabled 1 contact_groups admins stalking_options o register 0 } ################END SERVICE TEMPLATE ################## and here's the host template i'm using ################ BEGIN HOST TEMPLATE ################### define host{ name linux-server use generic-host alias servers check_command Check_ICMP!1 max_check_attempts 10 check_interval 0 check_period 24x7 contact_groups admins notification_interval 15 notification_period 24x7 notification_options d,r notifications_enabled 1 register 0 } ################ END HOST TEMPLATE ##################### any recommendations on changes? i tried going through the tweak guide but no luck that i've noticed. when i take a host down i noticed it doesn't detect it for about 5-10 minutes same with detecting it after it comes back up </BODY></HTML>