service performance logs

[Don Badrak]

Lane,

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Williams, P. Lane wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone has a standard way of rotating your service
> performance logs.  I've been letting mine go for some time now and it has
> hit the 2G limit and of course that killed the Nagios process.  So I
> manually rotated the thing and all is well.
>
> I've tried using logrotate in the past, but after the rotation Nagios stops
> logging to it.  I assume because the application has a lock on the file and
> when rotated that changes.

I have this crontab entry under the "nagios" username.

59 23 * * *     /usr/local/nagios/bin/rotate-perfdata.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

I use this script:

#!/bin/sh
# /usr/local/nagios/bin/rotate-perfdata.sh

BASEDIR="/usr/local/nagios"
VARDIR="$BASEDIR/var"

DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
sleep 60

for file in host service
do
   old="$VARDIR/${file}-perfdata.out"
   new="$VARDIR/${file}-perfdata.$DATE.out"
   mv $old $new && gzip $new
done
===

It's pretty simple, but it suits my needs.  It probably needs more features, like
putting all files in a YYYYMM directory, so the /usr/local/nagios/var directory doesn't
fill up.  Or move them to a new location.  Whatever you'd like.

Don
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