Re: [Nagios-users] Opinions on load balancing and failover mechanisms

2012-01-26 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 01/25/2012 11:44 PM, Mike Lindsey wrote: > There are a lot of options.. DNX, Merlin, mod_gearman to name a few... > I could read the docs (and have read a good portion of some of them) and > could implement test environments (and will eventually need to) but > first I want opinions from people

Re: [Nagios-users] Opinions on load balancing and failover mechanisms

2012-01-25 Thread Sven Nierlein
Hi Mike, Mod-Gearman is more or less the successor of DNX and probably the fastest worker available at the moment. It has hostgroup/servicegroup affinity included as well as embedded perl support. It is high available with automatic loadbalancing when you setup at least 2 worker per network seg

[Nagios-users] Opinions on load balancing and failover mechanisms

2012-01-25 Thread Mike Lindsey
There are a lot of options.. DNX, Merlin, mod_gearman to name a few... I could read the docs (and have read a good portion of some of them) and could implement test environments (and will eventually need to) but first I want opinions from people who've done this at large scale. I need to impr