Nagios Scalability Issues

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

On 05/06/07 03:29 PM, Andrew Tjang wrote:
> Thank you for your responses! My answers appear below.
> 
> -andrew
> 
>> Are you running active host checks?  
>> You might try turning off host checks altogether as an experiment to
> see if scaling improves.
>> 1000 hosts and 11,000 services is large.
>> Regards,
>> - Harper
> 
> None of the hosts are checked by active host checks (everything is
> passive, including the host checks).
> 
>> Another not-so-random suggestion would be to try disabling
> notifications on a program-wide basis and see if there is a > change. I
> assume that you've already set command_check_interval to -1.
> 
>> --
>> Marc
> 
> I have already set the command_check_interval to -1
> What does disabling notifications do? I still need to be able to see
> state changes on the gui.
> I will try this and get back to you.


One more possible pain point; do you have aggregate_status_updates=1 in
nagios.cfg? If it's set to 0 Nagios will waste time writing the status
file for each check result received.

Thomas

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