monitor mysql server

[Karl DeBisschop]

Van Zee, Timothy writes: 

> Holy Flame! 
> 
> Sorry to see that not everyone is as wise and knowledgeable as you.

Probably, most are more knowlegable than me, and certainly more wise. 

> Some may be just learning Nagios and maybe even linux on top of that, I
> think we should encourage them rather than try to scare them from ever
> asking a question again.

I agree. But I also feel that these mailing lists are staffed by volunteers 
and people should be made aware that there is a cost to posing trivial 
questions. Since that cost is usually developer time, the cost borne by us 
all is slower development. 

> If you don't like reading all of the messages to
> nagios-users, then don't.  You subscribed to the list by choice.

To an extent. However, I could not really develop the plugins but refuse to 
read the list, could I? 

>  You
> could have simply answered "Check out nagios-plugins-1.3.0-beta3 and
> look for check_pgsql".

Which is how I tried to answer the first question about mysql. Examining the 
output of configure to find the mysql problem would have also shown the 
pgqsl libraries were missing. On that basis, I felt the questioner should be 
given more pointed encouragement to try their own skills before posting. 

Along with the sarcasm, I tried my very best to ensure the question was 
answered as completely as I could with the information provided. 

> All "IMHO".

IMHO, people using the mailing list should respect the time given them by 
trying to not abuse it. Also IMHO, the poster did not. Of course I could be 
wrong. 

I'm sorry if you feel otherwise. And I'm sorry if you disapprove of my 
methods. But I'm not sure I'd do differently if I saw the same set of 
questions again. I suppose you could step in and answer these questions 
before me, then I would not bother to. In fact, I can think of no better way 
to keep my sometimes sarcastic little proddings off the net. (that is not 
sarcasm by the way -- it is a simple fact). 

 --
Karl 

> Tim Van Zee
> ITS Network Specialist
> Governors State University 
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl DeBisschop [mailto:kdebisschop at mail.debisschop.net] 
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 8:23 AM
> To: Kaplan, Andrew H.
> Cc: 'Karl DeBisschop'; 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Re: monitor mysql server 
> 
> 
> Kaplan, Andrew H. writes:  
> 
>> Related question: How about a monitor for postgres database?
> 
> If I had such a question, I might look at the plugins source code and
> notice 
> a file called 'check_pgsql'.  
> 
> If somehow I missed that, I'd unpack the distribution and 'grep -ri
> postgres 
> nagios-plugins-1.3.0-beta3'  
> 
> If neither of those turned up anything, then I'd send an email for help. 
> 
> 
> (I'll give you a hint, IMHO you should have been able to find the plugin 
> 
> yourself - it does exist)  
> 
>  --
> Karl  
> 
> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Karl DeBisschop [mailto:karl at debisschop.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 10:14 PM
>> To: frank
>> Cc:
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] monitor mysql server  
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 20:39, frank wrote:
>>> does anyone know where I could find a mysql plugin so I could monitor
> 
>>> mysql servers, netsaint has that but nagios doesn't seem to come with
> 
>>> it.
>> 
>> nagios has it. for some reason configure cannot find the development 
>> libraries for mysql when you start your build, perhaps? 
>> 
>> --
>> Karl 
>> 
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