<HTML dir=ltr><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16430"></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Dear readers,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I have a strange problem related to the use of OCP_daemon.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I've implemented this today on a "remote" nagios machine responsible for monitoring our LAN hosts.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Until now all messages and performance data was sent from that machine to our Central Nagios machine via obsess_over_hosts and obsess_over_services.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>But because a lot of services on the remote host combined with relative short check_interval periods caused high service and host check latencies i've started looking for an alternative and read about OCP_daemon.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I followed the install instructions and sending data via OCP_daemon works fine and very fast, also the remote nagios machine's latencies stay low.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>However, the central server stays processing all passive service and host check results (also from other send_nsca based hosts) but no longer executes it's own ACTIVE checks.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Is soon as i stop nagios on the remote monitor and restart nagios on the central server it starts executing ACTIVE checks again.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The load on both servers remained about the same since OCP_daemon and the only thing i noticed is that the number of buffers/slots used for the external command file (nagios.cmd) on the central server reaches rather higher values than before but no more than 30 - 40% of the available 4096 slots.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Please advice me.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Michel</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>