On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Max Hetrick<[email protected]> wrote: > Terry wrote: >> Anyone using check_mk? I've been playing around with it today to see >> if it would be a good move away from NRPE. Good concept but I am >> having issues trying to introduce contact group granularity into the >> mix. I am probably missing something that can be put into main.mk. > > Hi, Terry. > > I just looked at it quickly. Do you see any great benefit to switch from > NRPE to this? Briefly looking over the docs, it's seems a bit more > complicated to setup and use compared to NRPE. > > What's your opinion on playing with it so far? > > Regards, > Max > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It is really easy to use and cuts down the administration of "core services" (cpu,memory,disk) considerably. It's architecture of polling the host once and grabbing all the services in one shot is awesome too for large environments. For me, I like the architecture of it better than NRPE. However, taking the configuration outside of the nagios standard isn't desirable for me. In its normal mode, you run check_mk against its configuration and it then generates python executables for each host. However, it works in non-compiled mode as well. With this mode its possible to stick to a nagios-only configuration and still gain the benefits of the one-check architecture (I think). Still looking into that. Last note: I couldn't get host tags to work properly: all_hosts = [ 'omajelut02|cgjelms', ] service_contactgroups = [ ( "ms", cgjelms", [ "" ] ), ] I would expect the above to add the 'ms' contact group to all services on hosts with the cgjelms tag but it doesn't. No errors either. But if I try to keep all the configuration logic inside of nagios, this doesn't matter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
