NRPE and redundant calls to remote hosts.

[Marc Powell]

On Feb 6, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Rahul Nabar wrote:

> I've been adding a bunch of checks via NRPE on remote nodes and this  
> got me thinking. Isn't it inefficient to keep starting check_nrpe  
> calls from the monitoring host all the time?
>
> Why cannot nrpe on the remote node monitor some of the local  
> services and only send a message back to nagios if there is a status  
> change?

>
> Just curious. Or maybe there is a way of achieving this already that  
> I don't know of!

Passive checks with NSCA is pretty close, minus the 'if there is a  
status change' part. You could build that logic into whatever wrapper  
you are using to run the plugins on the remote host though. From the  
perspective of the nagios host, passive checks are much better than  
active checks.

--
Marc


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