Running java plugins in nagios

[Andreas Ericsson]

Thomas Schimpke wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is somebody on the list, who has some experience with running java
> plugins in nagios ? The technical integration is not the problem, but
> I'm having concerns about the java overhead (loading the VM,...). My
> fear is, that my monitoring server will simply be overloaded as soon, as
> there are some 10 java based checks running.  
> 
> The background is, that I'm working on a nagios  plugin for monitoring
> SAP R3  background processes. SAP's support for Java seems to be quite
> good and the connect is quite easy; also it's fairly easy to get the
> list of running jobs. 
> 
> In principal, the job could be done in perl. But since the plugin turns
> out to be a little bit complex (you need a database in the
> background...), I decided to write some Java code, which (I hope) would
> be easier to maintain (over a longer period of time). 
> 

You know, perl has rather excellent database support through the 
Perl::DBI module. I don't quite follow why writing it in the 
resource-hog java would make things better.

> Any ideas ?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Thomas Schimpke
> 
> 
>   

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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