nagios service check latency

[Jim Avery]

On 25/04/07, James <james at nttmcl.com> wrote:
> 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...
> host checks
>
> as in they happen regularly and almost instantly without latency
>
> Now my service checks used to be REALLY high latency but i removed
> unnecessary active checks on certain services. However my service checks
> for my clusters are still latent by about 5 minutes. Is there anyway to
> reduce this or just say that a certain service check should have zero
> latency?

IMO, the no. 1 easy thing you can do to reduce latency if you haven't
done so already is to replace your check_ping checks with check_icmp
or check_fping .  You want to make sure that any checks you have take
as little time to run as possible.

hth,

Jim

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