ndoutils and historical performance data

[mike conigliaro]

hey guys,

im working on a project for my company that generates reports/graphs from nagios 
performance data.  im currently using a combination of ndoutils and perfparse to 
accomplish this (ndoutils for current or very recent data, and perfparse for 
very old data).  this works ok right now, but id like to get rid of perfparse 
altogether in order to simplify my setup.

ndoutils works great (i love that its integrated with nagios, whereas perfparse 
feels like a bit of a hack to me), but i was disappointed to find that ndoutils 
does not appear to store the parsed version of the performance data.  ie: you 
just get a field with something like this:

'CPU0'=0%;80;95;; 'CPU1'=2%;80;95;;

this means that if i try to generate a graph from it, i need to parse every row 
myself, which i suspect will create a pretty serious performance bottleneck 
(especially with larger date/time ranges).

my question is, are there any plans to store performance data in a way that is 
more friendly for report generation?  or am i just missing something?

-- 
Mike Conigliaro
ProActive Technologies
conigliaro at getproactivenow.com
203.239.0440 ext:317
www.getproactivenow.com

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