Performing load tests with Nagios

[chris at eehmke.de]

On Donnerstag 05 Mai 2011, Polifemo, Salvatore wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> One limitation you will run into is that Nagios collects data at a
> minimum of 1 minute interval .

ok, but I could run some tasks in the background and poll the results each 
minute, right?
 
> You can look at plain MRTG if you can collect the data via SNMP.

Will have a look. Thanks
Chris
 
> Sal
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chris at eehmke.de [mailto:chris at eehmke.de]
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 2:33 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Performing load tests with Nagios
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I understand that Nagios is the perfect tool to monitor a network and
> the state of each server. I got the task to run memory tests, cpu load
> tests and network tests under high load conditions (i.e. put a quadcore
> processor to 100% load on each core) and monitor the temperature and
> other parameters. Is Nagios with suitable plugins a solution? At the
> moment a proprietary framework is planned for this project, but it turns
> out that it is not extendable for custom requirements. I need some good
> arguments to convince my project leader.
> 
> Cheers, Chris
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