Re: [Nagios-devel] nagios.cmd concurrency and cronological
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:21 am
Marcel Mitsuto Fucatu Sugano wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nagios 2.5, SuSE9.3.
> Syslog-ng 1.6.8.
>
> I am configuring some passive checks to be transported by syslog-ng. But
> keeping nsca daemon listening for other distributed agents check
> results. Syslog-ng is only transporting results that are generated by
> the monitored servers itself.
>
> So i've configured syslog-ng to write directly to nagios.cmd. Everything
> working fine, but as we are receiving check results from diferent
> distributed nagios servers, I wonder if whether or not msgs written at
> nagios.cmd has to be cronological. I mean, if some distributed server
> lost the synchronization with ntp, and the epoch time of one msg gets
> written to the nagios pipe with a timestamp lower than the one before
> that, will Nagios drop the delayed check result?
>
> Thanks for any comments on this matter.
>
> Marcel
>
IIRC Nagios shouldn't drop check results with out-of-order timestamps.
Hope that helps.
Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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> Hi,
>
> Nagios 2.5, SuSE9.3.
> Syslog-ng 1.6.8.
>
> I am configuring some passive checks to be transported by syslog-ng. But
> keeping nsca daemon listening for other distributed agents check
> results. Syslog-ng is only transporting results that are generated by
> the monitored servers itself.
>
> So i've configured syslog-ng to write directly to nagios.cmd. Everything
> working fine, but as we are receiving check results from diferent
> distributed nagios servers, I wonder if whether or not msgs written at
> nagios.cmd has to be cronological. I mean, if some distributed server
> lost the synchronization with ntp, and the epoch time of one msg gets
> written to the nagios pipe with a timestamp lower than the one before
> that, will Nagios drop the delayed check result?
>
> Thanks for any comments on this matter.
>
> Marcel
>
IIRC Nagios shouldn't drop check results with out-of-order timestamps.
Hope that helps.
Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
---
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.nagios.org
This post was automatically imported from historical nagios-devel mailing list archives
Original poster: [email protected]