Getting Performance Data into the perfdata files

[Ben Clewett]

If you manually enter a check command, does it display the performance 
data.  Eg:

/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 10% -c 5%

If the performance data is there, you will get something like:

DISK OK - free space: / 19458 MB (53%); /boot 35 MB (76%) | 
/=19457MB;33312;35163;0;37014 /boot=34MB;40;42;0;45

Clearly showing the performance data beyond the '|'.

Find one which you know works and ensure Nagios is checking it.  Note:- 
The check_load I used for that web site came from 
nagios-plugins-HEAD-200403290547.tar.gz, which image are you using?


My own nagios.cfg config file shows:

process_performance_data=1
xpdfile_host_perfdata_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/hostperf.log
xpdfile_host_perfdata_template=$TIMET$\t$HOSTNAME$\t$OUTPUT$\t$PERFDATA$
xpdfile_service_perfdata_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/serviceperf.log
xpdfile_service_perfdata_template=$TIMET$\t$HOSTNAME$\t$SERVICEDESC$\t$OUTPUT$\t$PERFDATA$

Do you have something similar?

Finally, the log file.  Please look at the log file (tail -f 
var/nagios.log) and ensure there are no errors.

Ben.



Cook, Garry wrote:

> I've sent this question to the PerfParse users list, but I don't think
> that there are too many people on the list yet. Also, while I want to
> use PerfParse to display my performance data, this is really a Nagios
> question, as I have not yet reached the PerfParse portion of the setup.
> 
> I've recompiled Nagios 1.2 with performance data (file-based) enabled,
> and I then installed the plugins from yesterday's CVS head (which broke
> check_nagios, had to copy over my old one). I added the necessary
> directives to the main configuration file, as described in the Nagios
> Performance Data docs. For some reason, I'm still not getting anything
> in the perfdata logs.
>  
> Owner/Group and permissions are correct on the perfdata logs. At least I
> think that they are, they are the same as all of the other logs in
> nagios/var.
>  
> I thought that it could be that I'm just not using any of the plugins
> that utilize performance data. But since check_load is shown being
> graphed on the PerfParse webpage, I enabled it, ran it from the command
> line to verify that it returned perfdata, and then added it to Nagios.
> Still nothing.
>  
> Any ideas?
> 
> Garry W. Cook, CCNA
> Network Infrastructure Manager
> MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
> 303.308.6228 (Office) - 720.220.1862 (Mobile) 
> 
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