Overuse of active monitoring

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Lee Fitz wrote:

> one person told me that Im overusing active monitoring.
>
> In my design, Im using mostly active monitoring' via Nagios.
>
> I am using passive monitoring (and a little active) for 27 machines but am 
> planning on using active monitoring for 30-50 more because of security 
> restrictions.
>
> The location of the Nagios Monitoring Host is inside a secure area, 
> consequently the only way I can get at the 30-50 additional machines outside 
> the secure area is via active monitoring since I can send out of the secure 
> area but no passive monitoring can come in.
>
> I did NOT see anything in the documentation or user group traffic that 
> implied that I could NOT (or should not) use more active monitoring than 
> passive monitoring.  The documentation seems to indicate that I could use all 
> active monitoring if I decided to.
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> -Lee
>

You should be fine - most installations are primarily active.

The only time one worrys about active is if your are doing a lot of 
individual check_by_ssh (or like) checks in a small interval that could 
cause target CPU spikes.


-- 
-sg


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