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Load on servers due to large number of alerts

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 11:14 pm
by RIDS_I2MP
Hi Team,

Current setup in our Nagios XI is such that Nagios sends alerts only once when state changes. If team misses this one alert it is creating an issue. So now we are planning to re-notify the contacts after specified interval. Due to this will the Nagios XI server or SMTP server experience high load which will create an issue in future ?

We have four Nagios XI servers, two of them have enterprise license and rest two have Standard license (number of hosts : unlimited).

Also let us know if we can check whether the load will be high or not.

Re: Load on servers due to large number of alerts

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 10:08 am
by eloyd
You're doing exactly what is supposed to be done - repeat notifications if the problem persists.

This will not cause any more load on the Nagios server than normal operation (in fact, it IS normal operation). Depending on how many messages, it may or may not impact your SMTP server; that's impossible for us to know in the forums.

Re: Load on servers due to large number of alerts

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 12:21 pm
by dwasswa
Hi @ RIDS_I2MP,@ eloyd is correct.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Re: Load on servers due to large number of alerts

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 12:02 am
by RIDS_I2MP
Hi Team,

Thanks for your inputs.

Re: Load on servers due to large number of alerts

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 11:18 am
by dwasswa
Hi @RIDS_I2MP,

Did you try what @eloyd mentioned?

Need to know if your problem was resolved.