OK, it could be an interesting idea! I have read about the change in 
plugins some time ago, maybe I really should try it...
Thank you

On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Khoury Brazil wrote:

> Maybe check out check_icmp (as a drop in replacement for check_ping). You
> have to use setuid and run it as root (so may want to look into a chroot
> jail). It can check multiple hosts at once and creates the sockets itself
> instead of running ping and parsing the output so it may run a bit lighter
> (haven't confirmed this myself so it's only speculation on my part).
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Tomas Macek <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have Intel server with 2 xeon 3.00 GHz physical processors (together
>> 4 cores) and 16 GB RAM on RAID 1 array. I monitor with this about 1600
>> services and 1000 hosts. The service monitoring consists mostly (maybe
>> 95%) on check_ping and check_snmp services.
>>
>> I have an experience from the past, that when the nagios/icinga load is
>> too heavy, some checks are somehow skipped and I can see it for example in
>> "Host
>> problems" in the column "last check" - the last check is for example some
>> hours old, when it should be checked every 5 minutes. Forcing the check
>> solves always the problem.
>> For example this morning some host was down but never recovered, altbough
>> the check ping service on this was OK. Forcing the host check resolved
>> this.
>>
>> Do you think that this hardware is enaugh for such a load? Don't you think
>> that I'm doing something wrong? Thank you for experiances
>>
>> Regards, Tomas
>>
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