<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:v = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE>@font-face { font-family: Tahoma; } @font-face { font-family: Verdana; } @page Section1 {size: 8.5in 11.0in; margin: 1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; } P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman" } LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman" } DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman" } A:link { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } SPAN.MsoHyperlink { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } A:visited { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } SPAN.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } SPAN.EmailStyle17 { FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; TEXT-DECORATION: none; mso-style-type: personal } SPAN.EmailStyle18 { FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; TEXT-DECORATION: none; mso-style-type: personal } SPAN.EmailStyle19 { FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; TEXT-DECORATION: none; mso-style-type: personal-reply } DIV.Section1 { page: Section1 } </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY lang=EN-US vLink=purple link=blue> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>If you've got passive check logging turned on, and you're not seeing them in the logs, they aren't coming in. Do the check results you see updating every 5 minutes say they are active or passive? If active, you're not getting results from your distributed servers at all.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>To debug, what I'd recommend is to manually run the command you use for your ocsp_command as the Nagios user from the distributed box. It sounds like that may be where things are breaking down, as Jason suggested.</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> From: InnovationsTech, Matthew Thomas [mailto:MThomas@InnovationsTech.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 5:41 PM To: Morris, Patrick; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Distributed Monitoring </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=Section1> Below is snippets from configuration. Is there a way to debug send_nsca ? I tried snoop and the port, tcpdump and the port, or tail on the nagios.log file and I don’t see when it’s submitting the results. But according to the website, they are updating every 4-6 minutes.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <Nagios.cfg><o:p></o:p> command_check_interval=-1<o:p></o:p> interval_length=30<o:p></o:p> log_external_commands=1<o:p></o:p> log_passive_checks=1<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <services.cfg><o:p></o:p> check_period 24x7<o:p></o:p> max_check_attempts 2 <o:p></o:p> normal_check_interval 3 ’90 Seconds per check<o:p></o:p> retry_check_interval 1 ’30 second till retry on soft fail<o:p></o:p> <DIV> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks for the assistance.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center> <HR tabIndex=-1 align=center width="100%" SIZE=2> </DIV> From: Morris, Patrick [mailto:patrick.morris@hp.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 20:29 To: InnovationsTech, Matthew Thomas; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Distributed Monitoring<o:p></o:p></DIV> <o:p> </o:p> Results will be getting sent to your ocsp command every time a check result comes back on the distributed server if it's obsessing. Are you sure the checks are running every 90 seconds? Or, have you set a long command_check_interval in nagios.cfg?<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center> <HR tabIndex=-1 align=center width="100%" SIZE=2> </DIV> From: nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of InnovationsTech, Matthew Thomas Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 5:06 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Distributed Monitoring<o:p></o:p> I’ve setup a distributed monitoring server. One issue I’m seeing is that the distributed server only updates the central server every 4-6 minutes. <o:p></o:p> I have service checks running every 90 seconds on the distributed server. I have it set to obsess over services.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Is there any way to adjust how often the send_nsca utility is actually ran, or adjust how often the distributed server updates the central server?<o:p></o:p> I have freshness turned on, and it always wants to go out and get the results, because it thinks they are stale after 2-3 min. (threshold set to 450sec). But this creates double traffic, and kind of defeats the reason for distributed monitoring.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thank You,<o:p></o:p> Matt<o:p></o:p></DIV></BODY></HTML>