[omd-users] log_initial_states impact in a dynamic monitoring environment

[Michael Van Wesenbeeck]

Doh! Sorry about the mail footer in my previous mail.

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> From: Michael Van Wesenbeeck <michael+omdu at oxopia.com>
> Date: 23 Jan 2013 12:13:43 GMT+01:00
> To: omd-users at lists.mathias-kettner.de
> Subject: Re: [omd-users] omd-users Digest, Vol 23, Issue 4
> 
> Thanks for your reply Lars.
> 
> As I understand it, we have no way of kicking a service check into existence without adding it in the config and reloading nagios (which in turn causes the initial state to be logged).
> The same applies for removing a service check I assume.
> I was looking at the external commands that can be sent to nagios here: http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/
> I thought I might use DISABLE_PASSIVE_SVC_CHECKS;<host_name>;<service_description> to exclude a service from the monitoring (for example a disk or VM that is gone and doesn't need monitoring anymore), until nagios needs to be reloaded for something else to avoid a reload. I did some tests with this command, but I'm not sure what exactly it does?
> 
> My goal is to keep the number of reloads or restart needed to a minimum as it might impact SLA reporting performance via mk-livestatus.
> Is this potentially a problem in environments with lots of services (+/-10k) where lots of reloads are done? What is the groups experience with this? 
> 
> On second thought, it might be better to combine monitoring of dynamic resources in a few custom service checks that combine stuff based on resource type.
> For example a check combining the status of all VMs on a compute node, where the check status is updated to critical when a VM on the node is having issues.
> So in this way, we move some of the intelligence to the check to avoid adding and removing services all the time.
> 
> all feedback is appreciated :)
> 
> Regards,
> Michael Van Wesenbeeck
> 
> On 22 Jan 2013, at 20:16, omd-users-request at lists.mathias-kettner.de wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:36:42 +0100
>> From: Lars Michelsen <lm at mathias-kettner.de>
>> To: omd-users at lists.mathias-kettner.de
>> Subject: Re: [omd-users] log_initial_states impact in a dynamic
>> 	monitoring environment
>> Message-ID: <50FE6BBA.1090608 at mathias-kettner.de>
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>> Hi Michael,
>> 
>> there are two options for us: restarting or reloading the nagios 
>> process. But there are no differences related to the initial states 
>> logging. Seems we have  no real chance to change this behavior.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Lars
>> 

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