strategic question: MySQL vs. no MySQL vs. RR DTool

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

Another excellent argument.

Then, to avoid duplication, can anyone think of a good strategy for creating
RRDTool-like drill-down graphs which is based on MySQL and not RRDTool
itself?

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jolet, John [mailto:John.Jolet at misyshealthcare.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 11:31 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] strategic question: MySQL vs. no MySQL vs.
> RR DTool
> 
> 
> 
> I have a similar reason for not wanting to use rrd....i don't 
> like the idea
> of deciding at creation time what my buckets will be...i'd 
> rather store ALL
> the datapoints and summarize when I report.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Liles [mailto:lilesb at ijet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 11:08 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] strategic question: MySQL vs. no MySQL vs.
> RRDTool
> 
> 
> One reason is because you can't store everything in a rrd.  For
> instance, if I want to keep the actual plugin return string.  Not just
> the ok,warning, critical, but the the text string, rrd isn't really
> going to do much for me.
> 
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:28:48 -0600
> "Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]" <jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com> wrote:
> 
> > Maybe I'm overlooking the obvious, but... what's the advantage from
> > moving from a 'default' install to having Nagios to MySQL?  What's
> > getting stored there?  The results of the checks?  If so, what's the
> > advantage of having detailed results from 16 months ago?
> > 
> > I'm asking this because I'm familiar with the design and intent of
> > RRDTool.
> > 
> > I'd appreciate some discussion on this topic, especially 
> comparing the
> > intent of using MySQL vs. using something like RRDTool.
> > 
> > jc
> > 
> > 
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