APAN

[Jamie]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

I'm using the NRG front-end by Steve Rader. That works fine, but I've been
considering adding to the system so that when average traffic levels (over
the week) exceed a certain level, NAGIOS generates a service alert that
basically auto-notifies sales people that they should go sell more bandwidth
to the customer of the monitored interface.

I just thought that seemed to be no advantage in creating another RRD when
I've already got several.

So basically Nagios would generate an "RRD check", and extract the info from
the RRD using (maybe using RRDfetch??), and then compare that to warning and
critical thresholds...I'd have hostgroups and notifications (and maybe even
escalations) set up appropriately....

..Somehow I just love the concept of getting Nagios to tell the Sales-People
what to do :-)

I'd code it myself, but I figure someone else might have already done it (or
at least something that could be hacked into shape).

-Cheers

Jamie





----- Original Message -----
From: "Fredrik Wänglund" <Fredrik.Wanglund at datavis.se>
To: "Jamie" <jamie at bclnz.net>; "Nagios Users"
<nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 8:22 PM
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] APAN


Yes thats exactly what Apan is.
Apan's main advantage over RRDTool+frontend is that it's integrated in
Nagios. Nagios is used to trigger alerts when proplems occur and you have
one overall view of your hosts/networks/services-status.

Over to your qestion. How do you collect data to your RRD's today? Have
those collectors the ability to trigger anything based on the return values?
If they have, then you can use passive checks in Nagios to handle the
alerts.


/FredrikW

-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie [mailto:jamie at bclnz.net]
Sent: Wed 30-Oct-02 23:26
To: Nagios Users
Cc:
Subject: [Nagios-users] APAN

Hi Nagios'ers,

I've been watching the APAN related emails fly past, and I've been asking
myself - "what is APAN?" - I'll need to explain this to other people
succinctly at some stage. This is what I've got so far:

"..APAN is an add-on to Nagios that is driven by the Nagios check process.
As checks are carried out, the results are logged in an RRD database, which
is used to display the historical performance data of the monitored
service..."

- Is that correct?

Question: What If I've got an RRDTool + Front end working perfectly well
already?. Can I use APAN (or does something exist) to *extract* from the RRD
db and compare against my defined service thresholds??

I hope I'm not too far off with my description above. Please correct me if
I'm wrong.

Cheers

Jamie





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