Integrating Nagios with MRTG

[jeff vier]

On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 01:32, Neil wrote:
> Just curious. What made you decide Cacti over APAN? 

I do use Apan...for the collecting part.

Cacti is prettier, more powerful, and allows me to display other rrds
generated outside of either Nagios/Apan or MRTG (flow-tools, for
instance.  Or Cacti itself doing SNMP calls.  Or whatever).

> jeff vier writes: 
> >> Is there any documentation on how to integrate Nagios with MRTG?  I would 
> >> appreciate any advice on this subject.  Thank you.
> > I personally use Apan to make RRDs via Nagios, as well as use the RRD
> > 'mode' in MRTG then use Cacti to display both. 
> > You could then reference the Cacti page in your Nagios config to display
> > the extinfo, thus re-integrating it.  I have been meaning to take this
> > last step, there's just a lot to change (several hundred RRD-tracked
> > services) and, thus, a lot to break should I botch something in the
> > script to change them all over. 
> > When I finally do, though, I'll post the conversion script to change
> > from standard Apan graphs to cacti graphs, if I can distill it down to a
> > usable script.  I *really* hope I don't discover I have to do it by hand
> > for some reason. 




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