> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edwin Eefting [SMTP:lists@datux.nl]
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 1:08 PM
> To: Nagios-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] performance data gathering?
>
>
> I see that there already are facilities do to exactly what i described:
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/perfdata.html
>
>
> I will look into this and write some patches for plugins that do not
> support this yet. After that i will make some standard onfigurations
> for external logging to rrdtool.
>
>
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Edwin Eefting wrote:
>
> > I'm currently thinking of a new way to do performance data gathering
> with
> > nagios and rrdtool. (to create those nice graphs
> >
> > Currently there's a nice project called apan, but it doesn't intergrate
> > nicely with nagios. (you'll have to do a some things double, configure a
> > lot of complicated stuff etc.)
> >
> > I purpose the following method to add performance data graphs to nagios:
> >
> > A generic way to let the current plugins return performance data that
> > nagios can store in rrdtool. This way it wouldn't matter if i use
> > check_disk with nrpe, or nagios_statd, or any other method. The current
> > plugins only need a slight modification to return the data in some
> generic
> > format. Perhaps we can add a "field" to the current returned data and
> let
> > plugins return something like:
> >
> > DISK OK - [1000000 kB (10%) free on /dev/sda1]
> > curr=9000000,max=10000000
> >
> > So we add a new line with performance data thats easy to interpret and
> is
> > formatted in a generic way. So "curr" is always the current value of
> > a service, and "max" always will be the maximum value.
> >
> > What do you think of this? Any suggestions for this system, or should we
> > just do it and submit our patches?
> >
> >
>
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