AW: Recording every service status check

[Mohr James]

>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se] 
>> Gesendet: Montag, 7. November 2005 16:27
>> An: Mohr James
>> Cc: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Betreff: Re: [Nagios-users] Recording every service status check
>> 
>> Mohr James wrote:
>> > Hi All!
>> > 
>> > I am missing a bit of KnowHow here. I need to have a 
>> record of every 
>> > single service check. Looking at the files in var/archives, the 
>> > entries for any given service does not appear that entries 
>> are made at 
>> > regular intervals. Well, at least I cannot see any pattern.
>> > 
>> 
>> Records are only updated when the status changes unless 
>> you've enabled stalking or debugging.
>> 
>> > I have been looking at the NEB, particularly the Mysql 
>> Insert plugin, 
>> > but I would hate to re-invent the wheel. Would the NEB be 
>> the way or 
>> > is there an option within the service definition that I am 
>> overlooking?
>> > 
>> 
>> I think stalking option would do what you want, but it would 
>> also add a lot of overhead. You might be better off doing it 
>> with a neb.

Isn't stalking illegal? ;-)

As an FYI, from what I see stalking would not do exactly what we need. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/stalking.html says:

"If you enable stalking for one or more states of a particular host or service, Nagios will log the results of the host or service check if the output from the check differs from the output from the previous check." 

Based on the description and example, if the message text was the same, even stalking would not record it.

Regards,

Jim Mohr



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