orca with Nagios logs

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Some of the plugins - notably all the check_tcp based plugins return perfdata

final release of 1.3 should have most of the plugins with some perfdata 
output.

-sg

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Frater, Greg J wrote:

> Have any of the host/service checks had the performance data support added?
> According to the current Nagios doc's none had as of the writing of the
> documentation.  If not is there any kind of time frame for this?  
> 
> Looks like the framework is there for this type of functionality but not
> quite ready for prime time.  Apan is a great start in the right direction,
> but needs more plugins and a little more maturity for us.  We unfortunately
> are in prime time and don't have the programming resources to build on the
> current framework.  I may be able to make an elementary crack at some of the
> performance stuff after we get our monitoring system in production mode.
> 
> I will definitely be watching this area with interest and if my schedule
> works out may try to do something with the existing functionality.   
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] [mailto:jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 3:24 PM
> To: Frater, Greg J; 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] orca with Nagios logs
> 
> 
> I've gotten as far as downloading Orca and taking a cursory look at the
> docs.  I also reconfigured/recompiled nagios with the --with-file-perfdata
> option, then defined the xpdfile_service_perfdata_file directive in
> nagios.cfg.  I found the output to be pretty much what the doctor ordered,
> but I've still been giving this some thought.
> 
> I've been wondering that if one configures/compiles nagios with
> --with-mysql-xdata, then would the necessary data be there to be able to do
> time-series graphing?
> 
> Even as I write this, I'm looking over JpGraph:
> 
>   http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/
> 
> and wondering if this, plus PHP, plus the GD library, plus MySQL, aren't
> just the ticket for creating reports on-the-fly...?  This way, we might be
> able to select a host, a timeperiod, and between 1 and N services, and
> kicking out graphs which would tell us what we need to know.
> 
> The obvious win is that the data should only be written once (MySQL), thus
> keeping disk I/O down to a dull roar.  I can't imagine any environment where
> there would be more than a handful of browsers set to refresh every 90
> seconds, and thus the impact on the 'image creation' side should be nominal.
> 
> Perhaps someone could scrutinize my idea...?
> 
> jc
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Frater, Greg J [mailto:gjfrater at bechtel.com]
> > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 3:25 PM
> > To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] orca with Nagios logs
> > 
> > 
> > Hello All, 
> > 
> > Has anyone looked into using Orca (http://www.orcaware.com/orca/) to
> > generate rrd files for generating performance data graphs of 
> > Nagios checks?
> > The web site says it can read data from arbitrary log files 
> > and put it into
> > an rrd.  Just wondering if anyone has tried this with Nagios logs.
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > 
> > Greg Frater
> > WTP IT dept.
> > 509 371 3537
> > gjfrater at bechtel.com
> > 
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