event broker -> SQL questions

[Andreas Ericsson]

Ben wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> 
>>>It seems to me that a {HOST,SERVICE}_STATUS event would only be fired 
>>>after the check had happened, so that would imply that this would always 
>>>be true if it was what you think it is. But that wouldn't make for a 
>>>useful datapoint, so I think we are both confused. :)
>>
>>I think Nagios just dumps all the data in the object struct to whatever 
>>is listening in the receiving end and doesn't differ between if the data 
>>passing takes place as the result of a timed event or as the result of 
>>some sort of state change. I know modules can schedule data to be passed 
>>at regular intervals as well as on events, so I guess that must be the 
>>answer.
> 
> 
> Yes, but that still means that STATUS messages are still generated after a 
> check, right?
>  

Well, the message might be, but I think the internals are a bit 
different. I think status events are just recorded in one and the same 
host/service struct{}, and whenever something is to be passed to the 
module, it dumps all of it instead of select parts. It's easier, I 
suppose, and allows modules to do all that Nagios does, which is sort of 
the general idea with modules.

> 
>>>I don't understand.... but that's ok, I understand enough to know that I 
>>>can ignore this for now. :) My SQL inserts are only to speed up the CGIs 
>>>and reports.
>>>
>>
>>I'm really interested in having a look at what you've done. Perhaps I 
>>can improve it somehow and we could both benefit from it. Is it GPL'd or 
>>do you have some proprietary copyright on it?
> 
> 
> Well, I have almost nothing yet except for a budding schema, a rough plan,
> and the go-ahead from my managers. :) Once I get something working I'll be
> more than happy to share the love. I would be estatic if I could get the 
> code included in contrib/
> 

If not, you can always open up your own project. It's really not that 
difficult.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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