plugins that integrate with rrdtool

rader at ginseng.hep.wisc.edu rader at ginseng.hep.wisc.edu
Thu Sep 16 17:00:57 CEST 2004


 > From: Tedman Eng
 > You mentioned cricket in your message.  If you have a current setup using
 > cricket, you can use the built-in threshold alerting to send passive checks
 > to Nagios from your cricket collector.  I'm running ~600 graphs on cricket
 > in compliment to Nagios.
 > 
 > I find that RRDtool wants rather regular scheduled data and is tolerant of
 > missing data.  Nagios is quite the opposite.  It wants no missing data, and
 > schedules things dynamically.  This fundamental difference made me consider
 > seperate (but complimentary) monitoring and trending facilities.

Very well put.  Getting RRDtool to correctly profess "current/now" 
values 100% of the time is mindnumbingly difficult!

steve 
- - - 
systems & network guy
high energy physics
university of wisconsin



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