On 12 July 2010 18:39, Joel Brooks <jbro...@oddelement.com> wrote: > hey gang, > > I'm trying to get a sense of what's normal for the number of checks per > host. > > I'm pushing nagios to a number of servers and the list of things I want to > monitor keeps growing. > > For some servers, I've got > 30 checks - some > 50. > > what is "normal" out there? > > is there a practical limit?
The golden rule I use is only monitor something if someone actually wants to know. In practice this means I monitor disk space, memory, cpu and whether the virus checker is ok for almost every WIntel server, but everything else just depends. The support teams soon tell me if they don't want monitoring on something! I guess the most checks I have on any server is about 40 - where the server runs stuff for half a dozen similar accounts and each account needs a handful of checks. The most I have on any 'host' is 94 - where a wireless switch has 90-odd access points connected and I need to know if any of them drop off. There are lots of devices which I just ping - a third party does the detailed monitoring for those - I do the ping to make sure the third party is doing their job okay. Whether all this is 'normal' I can't say for sure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ 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