Creating a custom Nagios/Centreon passive alerter

Posted on by David Vassallo

Scenario: This is very probably a familiar problem that any sysadmin must solve: Using your monitoring setup to receive alerts from other servers. Note the highlighted "receive". This is different from the standard poll / check that come out of the box with Nagios. Say for example, you would like to receive an alert whenever … Continue reading Creating a custom Nagios/Centreon passive alerter

Integrating mod_gearman with Centreon / Nagios

Posted on by David Vassallo

We currently have quite a large nagios + centreon setup with approximately 1500 checks, distributed over two pollers. This introduced quite a large load on both the servers, with top reporting a load regularly running into 10-13. This in turn causes quite a high service check latency (approx 5 seconds) The first improvements would be … Continue reading Integrating mod_gearman with Centreon / Nagios