Re: Nagios : need some advice

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:36:29PM +0000, nicolas.kosmalski@alemtid.asso.fr wrote:

>  - Do i need to use another monitoring software?

I depends on what you want to monitor and what your boss wants to see.

I recently started using munin in addition to nagios and other
monitoring software and I am impressed with the ease of installation.
I have not fully mastered it yet, but it is already very usefull and
helped me to identify a misconfiguration on one of my servers.

> If i do so, i change my check_normal_interval for all my service in the
> service configuration file. And maybe i must change another option (but
> what options?) and is nagios will be happy to do as i want?

Every 10 seconds can put a lot of load on your network connections
especially if you monitor a lot of services and servers.  I would
certainly not do that for most of the servers/services.

Regards
Johann

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