Hi Ken On May 19, 6:23 pm, Ken <k...@bob.sh> wrote: > > As a complete diversion from your issue - I ended up moving away from > NRPE in the end and used distributed nagios servers on each box. > This was purely for scaling reasons due to NRPE tests holding up resources > on the server.
A Nagios server on each monitored host? And this should scale better than NRPE? I really cannot believe that this is the "intended" usage. This kind of seems to reverse the usual Nagios monitoring from a mainly polling to an entirely pushing scheme. I so far only monitor abt. 400 hosts from my Nagios server, and for a while had a very modest delegation to merely two other distributed Nagios servers (mainly owe to firewall impedances) for less than 50 hosts. But even in such a trivial setting I found that the nsca server on my central Nagios server was almost overburdened by the load of incoming passive check results (or rather the xinetd, which admittedly probably wasn't the best choice). Added to this came the configuration overhead, but ok, I understand you are letting Puppet handle this. As a complete Puppet novice I think for now this would be beyond my capabilities anyway. > Also - using nagios on each box means you can use the > Puppet naginator plugins (instead of having to manage your own > nrpe.cfg file) - combined with exported resources you can configure > server and client as well etc. etc. The benefits are many - but it > does take a bit to get your head around the setup. I should totally subscribe to that. > BTW - Why do you care if you are installing extra packages? Are you > space constrained? Nay, disk space isn't that expensive these days anymore. But I'm a supporter of the old virtue that what isn't required on a host shouldn't be installed on it. Regards Ralph -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
