Clarification of perfdata configuration

[Yueh-Hung Liu]

are you sure your checks will return performance data along with check outputs?

BR


On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Craig Stewart
<Craig.Stewart at corp.xplornet.com> wrote:
> Good day all!
>
> It's me again.  Before I get too detailed, I'd just like a sanity check
> on what is supposed to happen.  Let's say we have a nagios.cfg series of
> entries like this:
>
>
> host_perfdata_file=/tmp/host.perfdata
> host_perfdata_template=$HOSTNAME$\t$HOSTSTATEID$\t$HOSTOUTPUT$\t$HOSTOUTPUT$
> service_perfdata_file=/tmp/service.perfdata
> service_perfdata_template=$HOSTNAME$\t$SERVICEDESC$\t$SERVICESTATE$\t'$SERVICEOUTPUT$'
> host_perfdata_file_mode=a
> service_perfdata_file_mode=a
>
> If I understand this correctly, the Nagios process opens the two files
> and starts appending the information in the format supplied above, correct?
>
> I've checked, and Nagios is opening the files.
>
> [root at g-caon-spdtst-tor01 tmp]# lsof | grep perfdata
> nagios 6941 nagios 6w REG 8,3 0 1983833 /tmp/host.perfdata
> nagios 6941 nagios 7w REG 8,3 0 1983834 /tmp/service.perfdata
> [root at g-caon-spdtst-tor01 tmp]# ps awx | grep nagios
>  6941 ?        Ssl    0:12 /usr/sbin/nagios -d /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
> [root at g-caon-spdtst-tor01 tmp]# ls -l *.perfdata
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 0 2011-06-13 18:01 host.perfdata
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 0 2011-06-13 18:01 service.perfdata
> [root at g-caon-spdtst-tor01 tmp]#
>
> If I understand all of the above, this file should be collecting the
> information dumped to it, and getting larger and larger and larger....
>
> As it stands, nothing is going into the files.
>
> Thoughts?  I'm sure it's something simple and I'm overlooking it.
>
> System specs:
> Nagios Core 3.2.0
> Copyright (c) 2009 Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors
> Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad
> Last Modified: 08-12-2009
> License: GPL
> [root at g-caon-spdtst-tor01 tmp]# uname -a
> Linux g-caon-spdtst-tor01 2.6.27.29-170.2.79.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Aug
> 14 20:49:37 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Cheers!
>
> Craig
>
> --
> Craig Stewart
> Systems Integration Analyst
> Craig.Stewart at corp.xplornet.com
> Xplornet - Broadband, Everywhere
>
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