Nagios from traces.

[Folkerd Koning]

Maybe a simple solution... But could you not write an check plugin that
parses the files and offers it to Nagios? Or parse the files and dump it in
the pipe as passive check submissions directly?


Regards,
  Folkerd H. Koning
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Andrew Tjang
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 3:26 PM
> To: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-devel] Nagios from traces.
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I am trying to get Nagios to read from traces. I'm having 
> difficulty on figuring out where to begin. 
> 
> I want to do this because I don't have direct access to the 
> machines i'll be monitoring. I need to periodically ship the 
> monitored data from the hosts to the nagios machine, parse 
> the files and then update nagios.
> The parsing part I think i can do fine. It's the part that 
> involves modifying Nagios to read from file rather than query 
> hosts that I need help with. 
> 
> I'd like to keep the same config file format, but just modify 
> the monitoring sections to read from file based on those 
> configs. Is there any place you could recommend that I start looking?
> 
> Thank you in advance for your assistance, -Andrew
> 
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