Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-11 Thread Scott Ward
We have decided to go with Centreon. I let you know how it goes. ~Scott Ward On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Romain Le Merlus wrote: > Hi Scott, > > You can also try Centreon software to manage your different pollers and > configuration: > http://www.centreon.com > > Here is an overview of the

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-11 Thread Kevin Keane
erformance. - If the satellites are behind a firewall, it may not even be possible to write directly to the DB. From: Scott Ward [mailto:13.sward...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 6:05 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation We are going t

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-11 Thread Max
Our changes to Merlin allow N pollers to all write to the same database without conflicts. -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental u

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-11 Thread Max
I can attest / confirm what Andreas states about the merlin daemon. BTW, Andreas, I just patched our code base to contain your 0.6.7 changes and I will be posting that on Github for you and anyone else interested to check out over the weekend. Our tests so far are showing that with the Merlin NE

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-11 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 06/11/2010 04:08 PM, Scott Ward wrote: > How does Merlin compare with NDO in terms of resource usage? > merlin is fairly lightweight. What little memory its uses resides primarily on the stack and fits well inside the stack of 1MiB. Here's the output of "ps wwaux | grep merlin" on a master sy

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-11 Thread Romain Le Merlus
Hi Scott, You can also try Centreon software to manage your different pollers and configuration: http://www.centreon.com Here is an overview of the functioning: http://en.doc.centreon.com/CentreonArchitecture To see how it looks like, here is a web demo: http://demo.centreon.com Best regards. -

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-11 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 06/11/2010 03:04 PM, Scott Ward wrote: > We are going to be using distributed monitoring for sure. We just cannot > decide whether we should use NDO to write directly to the database or us > NSCA to send back to the master server. Any suggestions? > > Is there a frontend that actually uses th

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-11 Thread Scott Ward
We are going to be using distributed monitoring for sure. We just cannot decide whether we should use NDO to write directly to the database or us NSCA to send back to the master server. Any suggestions? Is there a frontend that actually uses the information in an NDO db? From what I've read it l

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-11 Thread Martin Melin
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 21:55, Kevin Keane wrote: > Config file maintenance can be improved to some extent with careful design > of the config files, as well as tools. It is an issue that I am running into > with a relatively small installation with 80+ hosts and 400+ services. My > installation

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-11 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 06/10/2010 07:51 PM, Scott Ward wrote: > We are looking to do an large installation of Nagios. Is it possible to > monitor over 800 machines and over 14000 services? > > Has anyone tried doing anything like this? If you have how successful was it > and how did you configure it? > We have plen

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-10 Thread Matt Simmons
gt; holes into firewalls, and/or frequently establishing and tearing down > encrypted connections with the attendant processing load. There are some > third-party solutions for this issue, though. > > > > From: Scott Ward [mailto:13.sward...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 1

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-10 Thread Matt Simmons
Make sure to read these pages: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/tuning.html http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/largeinstalltweaks.html Also, if you're monitoring 800 machines across WANs, you might look into distributed monitoring: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/distributed.html

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-10 Thread Scott Ward
>Make sure to read these pages: > >http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/tuning.html >http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/largeinstalltweaks.html > >Also, if you're monitoring 800

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-10 Thread Kevin Keane
are some third-party solutions for this issue, though. From: Scott Ward [mailto:13.sward...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:34 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation >Make sure to read these pages: > >http://nagios.sourceforge.

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-10 Thread Mark Elsen
> We are looking to do an large installation of Nagios. Is it possible to > monitor over 800 machines and over 14000 services? Works like a charm :-) > > Has anyone tried doing anything like this? If you have how successful was it > and how did you configure it? > Same as for a small installat

[Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-10 Thread Scott Ward
We are looking to do an large installation of Nagios. Is it possible to monitor over 800 machines and over 14000 services? Has anyone tried doing anything like this? If you have how successful was it and how did you configure it? ~Rultax ---