Nagios

[Gerald Combs]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> What kind of load does Nagios place on a machine?  Most of the systems I want 
> to monitor are somewhat marginal - which is why they need monitoring - and on 
> at least one of them external monitoring might not be possible.

The amount of load that Nagios incurs depends on the number of "service"
entries you have defined.  We have ~100 services defined for ~20 hosts,
and the load is minimal, currently wavering between 0.08 and 0.15 on our
server (a P3/1000).