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SearchOpenSource: Balancing Passive and Active Checks in Nagios

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 7, 2006

[ Thanks to Jane Walker for this link.
]

If you’ve already deployed Nagios in your IT
environment, what are some tricks you can use to enhance and
improve performance?

Dondich: As your IT environment grows, the
number of monitored devices will grow with it. As it continues to
grow, you may see performance degrade or the bandwidth in your
network saturate with the number of checks Nagios is performing.
The thing I can’t stress enough is to use active checks only when
necessary and to really leverage passive checking…”


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