Nagios& Cacti - Ethan, I know you must get ton s of mails/day, please read the, nevertheless.

Marek Dohojda marek.dohojda at linksys.com
Thu Jun 5 01:35:40 CEST 2003


Not sure what you mean by this.  I mean would you want Nagios to poll the
data in RRD?

Sorry long day and I was stuck in Windows hell, lost at least 50 iq points
hehe 


-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie Baddeley [mailto:jamie.baddeley at vpc.co.nz] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 4:26 PM
To: Marek Dohojda; ralph at mail.Gerstmann.Net
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net

<mantra>
nagios should poll the retrieved RRD's
</mantra>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marek Dohojda" <marek.dohojda at linksys.com>
To: <ralph at mail.Gerstmann.Net>
Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 10:49 AM
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios& Cacti - Ethan, I know you must get tons
of mails/day, please read the, nevertheless.


> Actually
>
> I wouldn't suggest using cacti for this.  It's a very nice tool, there 
> is
no
> question about it, but it has some weaknesses, that make it perfect 
> for network traffic, not so good for others.
>
> If you ant to do this, I would suggest concentrating on Nagios, 
> writing an interface or plugging for it (something akin to APAN) using 
> rrdtool, and probably mysql backend.  This way you can display whatever
you like to do.
>
> Which wouldn't be all that bad, because the availability report could 
> use
a
> little bit of perl magic.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ralph at mail.Gerstmann.Net [mailto:ralph at mail.Gerstmann.Net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 3:35 PM
> To: nagios at nagios.org; iberry at raxnet.net
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net;
nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net;
> cacti-user at lists.sourceforge.net
>
> Hi Ethan,
> Hi Ian,
> (Hi Community,)
>
> Thx a lot for providing the best GPL
> System Monitoring Tools i ever saw.
>
> Just to notice:
> I have lots of experience with this subject.
>
> I would love to bring the 2 best Solutions together:
> Cacti for handling Web-Based, Template Based RRD-Configuration and 
> Nagios for best Alarming and History Features.
>
> Are you interrested?
>
> What I actually need:
> Web-Based configuration of RRDs (like in cacti) with an add-on to set 
> alarming-thresholds, which are then sent to nagios for alaming.
> Or an even better integration of your Tools.
>
> The Problem is:
> Both of your Projects come with their own polling-machine.
>
> I can understand pretty well, that its no fun giving up an own code 
> one
has
> written and established.
>
> On the other hand,
> if we marry your great Tools,
> this would give them a drive,
> IBM Tivoli will be afaid of,
> like M$ is (qualified) afaid of Linux...
>
> Any Ideas?
>
> Cheers,
> Ralph
>
> http://Gerstmann.Com?language=e
> http://GPLshop.Com (not really translated, yet)
>
>
>
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