Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with parents and multipath

2007-03-11 Thread Daniel Meyer
Hi, no ideas? It's a quite common setup :-) Most important thing i need to know is if i made a mistake or if its broken (by design?) within nagios... Danny -- Q: Gentoo is too hard to install =http://www.cyberdelia.de and I feel like whining. = [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with parents and multipath

2007-03-08 Thread Daniel Meyer
stupid me :) forgot something: i'm using Nagios 2.7 -- Q: Gentoo is too hard to install =http://www.cyberdelia.de and I feel like whining. = [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Please see /dev/null. = (from the gentoo installer FAQ) =

[Nagios-users] Problem with parents and multipath

2007-03-08 Thread Daniel Meyer
Hi, i've the following network structure between our main location and several other sites: />RouterA1<>RouterB1<\ LanA<>SwitchA XSwitchB<>LanB \>RouterA2<>RouterB2

Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: $HOME is not set in init script

2007-01-26 Thread Daniel Meyer
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Arno Lehmann wrote: >> Hi Danny, > I'm not Danny, but... but i am :-) > You've got a problem with the perl script. The embedded Perl requires > that you follow certain rules in your script. I suupose that there's the > problem. Yep, clearly a problem with ePN. You can just c

Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: Re: $HOME is not set in init script

2007-01-25 Thread Daniel Meyer
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Daniel, > > nagios is started in /etc/init.d/nagios with "su - nagios -c nagios", so the > process > inherits the environment varialbes of the root user, which executes the su > command. > ($HOME is /root) Which distribution are you using? My ini

Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: Re: $HOME is not set in init script

2007-01-25 Thread Daniel Meyer
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Daniel, > > nagios is started in /etc/init.d/nagios with "su - nagios -c nagios", so the > process > inherits the environment varialbes of the root user, which executes the su > command. > ($HOME is /root) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# echo $HOME /root [

Re: [Nagios-users] $HOME is not set in init script

2007-01-25 Thread Daniel Meyer
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was writing an event-handler which does ssh to the faulty box. It does not > work at > all, since $HOME was /root and not /var/log. ssh aborted since it could not > read > /root/.ssh/known_hosts. > > So please change the /etc/init.d/nagios which

Re: [Nagios-users] Performance issues, too

2007-01-01 Thread Daniel Meyer
Hi there, and happy new year :-) Program Running Time: 10d 21h 22m 42s So, for almost eleven days nagios runs smoothly now, no more latency problems. I'll try it again with EPN (but still without perlcache) now. Danny -- Q: Gentoo is too hard to install =http://www

Re: [Nagios-users] Performance issues, too

2006-12-25 Thread Daniel Meyer
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Joerg Linge wrote: >> I have watched over the last hour the process grow from 124M >> to 126M. >> >> I use ePN with caching. Most of my checks are SNMP requests >> via ePN scripts (http://lanning.cc/custom_plugins/), with >> p1.pl modified with: >> >> use SNMP 5.0; >> SNM

Re: [Nagios-users] Performance issues, too

2006-12-21 Thread Daniel Meyer
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > I have the suspicion that our check latency might converge on 419 > seconds - but I'd rather not test it, we'd be well beyond the > 300s-interval most of our checks are designed for. Why do you think of exactly 419 seconds? And btw, if our problems

Re: [Nagios-users] Performance issues, too

2006-12-20 Thread Daniel Meyer
Ok, this is what i noticed on my performance issues during the last days: - it is not triggered by any other software on the server (nagios and apache are the only things running there) - its not triggered by hourly, daily or weekly cronjobs - the big service check latency goes away instantl

Re: [Nagios-users] Questions about scheduling

2006-12-19 Thread Daniel Meyer
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > Just curious. How will this work if you have something like 5 hosts in > line in a parent-child relation? > > The fastest way would be starting from nagios and work your way to the > downed host as the average latency on a check on a live host is mu

Re: [Nagios-users] Performance issues, too

2006-12-19 Thread Daniel Meyer
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > I'm running 2.6 now but I had the troubles with 2.5 initially. > OS is a Gentoo Linux, Kernel 2.6.15.5 initially, upgrade to > 2.6.19 today. Same here. Latency-Problems with both 2.5 and 2.6, but on CentOS 4.4 (good that you use gentoo, saves me the

Re: [Nagios-users] Performance issues, too

2006-12-19 Thread Daniel Meyer
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Are the CPU's 64 bit ones running in 32-bit emulation mode? For intel > cpu's, that causes up to 60% performance loss (yes, it really is that bad). I just can answer for my setup (which is almost identical except for i have "only" 1700 service check

Re: [Nagios-users] big performance issue with Nagios 2.5

2006-12-17 Thread Daniel Meyer
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Marcel Mitsuto Fucatu Sugano wrote: > What kind of checks do you run? Is there any custom plugins that take 700 * "check_nt" 280 * "check_icmp" 170 * checks against Netapp Filer (Perl und C) 160 * selfmade-checks against RSA Cards 120 * check_snmp_int.pl 80 * checks against

Re: [Nagios-users] big performance issue with Nagios 2.5

2006-12-13 Thread Daniel Meyer
> Do you have passive and active checks? What is the ratio between them? > I've runned across this issue, and had to tweak with main config values > to solve the problem. # Active Host / Service Checks: 286 / 1609 # Passive Host / Service Checks: 3 / 7 > and Nagios being way too busy for executin

Re: [Nagios-users] big performance issue with Nagios 2.5

2006-12-12 Thread Daniel Meyer
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Daniel Meyer wrote: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Mike Holloway wrote: > >> In nagios.cfg, what values are you using for service_reaper_frequency >> and sleep_time? I'm using service_reaper_frequency=5 and >> sleep_time=1 for about 10 hosts and 200

Re: [Nagios-users] big performance issue with Nagios 2.5

2006-12-11 Thread Daniel Meyer
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote: > My theory is that Solaris is having issues forking all the checks. > Does anyone know if Solaris does "copy on write" for the process > memory when forking? I use a lot of ePN checks. my checks split up like this: 700 * "check_nt" 280 * "chec

Re: [Nagios-users] big performance issue with Nagios 2.5

2006-12-11 Thread Daniel Meyer
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Mike Holloway wrote: > In nagios.cfg, what values are you using for service_reaper_frequency > and sleep_time? I'm using service_reaper_frequency=5 and > sleep_time=1 for about 10 hosts and 200 services. You might need to > adjust your service_reaper_frequency down from the

[Nagios-users] big performance issue with Nagios 2.5

2006-12-10 Thread Daniel Meyer
Hi everyone, i've ran into a somewhat anoying issue with nagios. First, this is my setup: - Dual Xeon 2.8 HT server running an up to date CentOS 4.4, nagios 2.5 (rpm from Dag Wieers) and checking approx. 285 hosts and 1500 services - active host checks are off - host check is replaced by a dumm