With NSCA what check_command do you use?

[Chris Stankaitis]

Nope, your right it's a pain in the ass... we had to write a script to 
massage the data also.. but I personally think that the pain is worth 
it's 2 main advantages, we monitor close to 1000 services over our 
various servers, other then some ping, ssh, http etc checks all are 
passive... and our Nagios box is still very busy.. passive checks 
through NSCA are encrypted (a very big plus over other methods) and take 
a good chunk of the load off our main Nagios server, as it is we have 
had to play around with timings and thresholds to get all of our active 
checks to run in our check_interval :)

Once you get it working adding new servers, and the upkeep becomes 
negligible but yes.. it is a pain to get going initially.

Chris

Shaun Reitan :: NDC Host wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> Thanks i'll check it out.  NSCA has been a pain in the ass so far, i'm
> having to write scripts just just parse the data for the send process.  Am i
> missing something or is this normal? :)
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Shaun Reitan
> CTO
> Shaun.Reitan at NDCHost.com
> www.NDCHost.com
> www.cPlicensing.net
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Stankaitis" <chris.stankaitis at datawire.net>
> To: "Shaun Reitan :: NDC Host" <Shaun.Reitan at NDCHost.com>
> Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 12:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] With NSCA what check_command do you use?
> 
> 
> 
>>in the doc's somewhere there is a small "check" for freshness
>>checking... since all your NSCA checks are passive you'll want to
>>disable ACTIVE checks for the services that are using NSCA this will
>>stop the weird results... then you may want to enable freshness checking
>>on the Passive services, and using the doc-provided freshness-check
>>script switch your NSCA services' check command to the 'check-fresh' or
>>whatever you choose to name it
>>
>>
>>Shaun Reitan :: NDC Host wrote:
>>
>>>ok, i got NSCA working but i'm confused what check_command to use.
> 
> Since NSCA works by receiving results via externals i really dont need a
> check_command on the nagios monitor but it wont let me not have one.  I
> setup libexec/check_dummy in it's place but that gives unaccurate results
> becasue nagios still runs that check_command and it's returning OK and
> overwriting the info it received via externals.
> 
>>>At the moment i'm wondering if i should use NRPE or whatever but i hate
> 
> the idea of having this server on every server. NSCA doesnt seam like it was
> well thoughout.
> 
>>>Best Regards,
>>>
>>>Shaun Reitan
>>>CTO
>>>Shaun.Reitan at NDCHost.com
>>>www.NDCHost.com
>>>www.cPlicensing.net
>>
>>--
>>Chris Stankaitis
>>Systems Administrator
>>Datawire Communication Networks Inc.
>>
>>
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