Deletion of the performance data log files.

[Steve Hanselman]

It sounds the cleanest way, but I don't believe the method currently exists,
you'd have to add it.

Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Clewett [mailto:Ben at clewett.org.uk] 
Sent: 18 May 2004 11:54
To: Steve Hanselman
Cc: 'Nagios Developers'
Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] Deletion of the performance data log files.

Steve Hanselman wrote:

> Might be better to send a request that nagios renames the files, then you
> can process them then delete them?
> 
> Steve

Yes, sounds like a good idea.

My thoughts were converging towards making Nagios fclose() the file 
after every write.  But this would slow Nagios slightly, and there is 
still the very slight risk of a lost line of data. -- But I think your 
method is better.

So, using the standard CGI method of passing a command.  My code can 
submit this, wait for the file to appear, and get on with parsing it. 
Nagios would then re-open the original file name and continue to write.

Can you see and problems with this method?  Does this method already 
exist, or would I have to code it?

Kind regards, Ben



> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Clewett [mailto:Ben at clewett.org.uk] 
> Sent: 18 May 2004 11:13
> To: Nagios Developers
> Subject: [Nagios-devel] Deletion of the performance data log files.
> 
> Dear group,
> 
> I have a problem parsing the Nagios performance data and wonder if any 
> member can suggest a solution.  These have the default file names 
> 'serviceperf.log' and 'hostperf.log'.
> 
> I wish to parse and delete these every minute.  But I cannot delete them 
> as Nagios holds the file open.  Stopping and starting Nagios every 
> minute is not really an option.
> 
> Really I want to pass a command to Nagios to request the deletion of 
> these files.  However, if there is a delay between Nagios getting the 
> command, and Nagios deleting the files, information will be lost. 
> Because my program is sitting waiting for the deletion without parsing.
> 
> Ideally, I would want Nagios to write to a tmp file, then on getting a 
> command, close the file, move it to the true file, and open up a new tmp 
> file for it's self.  Or get Nagios to continuously close the file after 
> every write, making it delete-safe.  But this might effect performance??
> 
> If any member has any ideas, I would be extremely interested.
> 
> Kind regards, Ben.
> 
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