Questions on migrating to Distributed Environment on Nag 1.1

[James Harrison]

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 11:37, Hochberg, Keith wrote:
> > 1.  Where do I do check_host_alive? Central or Distributed?
> 
> The central server executes the host check command defined in hosts.cfg
> after it receives data passively that a service has gone into a HARD
> state.  Passive host checks should be possible with Nagios 2.0 (per
> Ethan).

Thanks, that explains a lot.  Is this info in the doc's somewhere that I
missed?  Should it be added?(I know with 2.0 on the way it may be moot)


> 
> For 2 and 3 I have never seen this happen on my build... the only thing
> I can think of is to make sure your freshness_threshold is set to an
> interval that the active server should be sending data for that service.

Ahh!! Freshness threshold indeed.  I loosened it up a bit and all is
better.

> 
> > 4.  For members of the list who are managing large Nagios
> implementations "thousands of services on hundreds of hosts", how are
> your configs managed?  I'm currently using Nagmin, which seems ok, but
> was just curious what big sites might be doing.
> 
> I manage my configs by hand... if you ask me it's the only way to do it.

I'm in a primarily MS shop and our managers want to make sure that any
of the Linux stuff is "easy" to use/manage if any of us *nix guys
disappear, get runover, etc,etc.  (I'm not sure what could be easier to
manage than a text file either.)  Anyway, I'm tryin' to provide some
kinda GUI so these guys can manage it as well.

Thanks for the info.

-- 
James Harrison RHCE, CCNA


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