checking a counter on a website

[Doug Veldhuisen]

Most Linux distros, I am aware anyway, support share memory segments.  the
How about a mechanism, supported by Nagios of course, where we could 
save some variables to a shared memory segment.  Saving and 
retrieving should be pretty quick.

Doug Veldhuisen
Running Nagios 2.5 on Debian and Fedora.


At 01:29 PM 10/18/2006, Marc Powell wrote:


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of rob.moss at uk.bnpparibas.com
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 3:31 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] checking a counter on a website
> >
> >
> > nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net wrote on 17/10/2006
>20:01:28:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > The responsibility of something like this entirely up to the plugin..
> >
> > Nagios's task is to schedule and check hosts/services, and to notify a
> > contact of status changes.
> >
> > The task of the plugin is to perform an operation to check if a
>service is
> > working (or not) and provide a uniform status message back to Nagios..
>
>I can see value to having a $SERVICEPREVOUTPUT$ macro that could be
>passed to a check plugin. That would be an easy way to allow for this
>commonly requested functionality. --
>
>Flow --
>         (Service check execution time)
>         $SERVICEPREVOUTPUT$ = $SERVICEOUTPUT$
>         $SERVICEOUTPUT$=NULL
>         (Execute Plugin)
>         $SERVICEOUTPUT$ = <Plugin output>
>
>--
>Marc
>
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