pros/cons of using MySQL?

[moshe sharon]

Hello
 DB support has advantage over flat file. entries can be accessed and
processed faster. reduce read write I/O on disks. new web interfaces are
much easier to build. and of course data report manipulations via db are
more effective. although not all historical data kept in db you still have
advantage with status / comments / retention etc.
as far as i know db support is standard in the enterprise / smb programs
like hpov / ca / tivoli. even whats up gold uses an internal db and not just
flat file. we are using nagios 1.3 with db support and from our tests in
larger enviroments the results are better with db support
 as for Nagios 2 it is bad that db support dropped. although you can achieve
the functionality with Neb module (nagios-db) there is still the unnecessary
write I/O of the status.log and im not sure it can be disabled.
 Moshe
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