checking a counter on a website

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Frank, Jason wrote:

> This actually hits on what I consider to be one of Nagios'  (few)
> weaknesses.  A lot of time, when I do my checks, I'm not nearly as
> interested in the value of a check as in the change in the value since
> the last check.  This is a good example.  Another item I monitor is
> changes in the SNMP Interface error counters.  For example, if I get
> more than 5 errors/second, I need to send out an alert.  Finally, I have
> the same issue monitoring SNMP Interface statuses.  But, Nagios has no
> feature to remember data between invocations of the checks.  So, I end
> up storing this data in temporary files. If there was a facility to
> provide some information back to Nagios, and retrieve it on the next
> one, that would be wonderful.

Well. If you check the archives you may see that people monitor with their 
own scripts and store those results in RRD files. Then you can use Nagios 
to monitor the RRD file values and alert on changes.

Hugo.

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