Deborah Martin wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running nagios 2.0b4, on suse 9.3. The plan is to upgrade to 3.0.6 > (nagios) and SLES10 sp1. > > Recently, during some checking of the data that I collect for SLA reporting, > I noticed the service latency has gone through the roof! > > The only recent change I've made is to put ssh checks as a host check. This > was to filter ssh checks away from the service problem web interface > as we do have to shut nodes down from time to time but we don't want to be > alerted as a service problem. >
Did you also enable scheduled host checks? In 2.x, nagios stops everything as soon as it runs a host check, so latency will naturally go through the roof. > I then had to introduce check_dummy as the service check (otherwise the > pre-flight check outputs hundred of lines stating the no services was > associated with xxxx host). The check_dummy service check is only done on a > Sunday once per host as it's a dummy check. I thought this would put less > load on Nagios (please correct me if I'm wrong) > > We regard service problems to only be checks against our databases. > > Does anyone know of what could set this servicelatency to suddenly increase > like this ? > Since you're running a beta release that's more than 2 years old, I'm not even remotely interested to guess or investigate this matter. At least upgrade to latest 2.x stable (2.12, I think?). If the problem still persists, then it's worth investigating. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null