solutions for off-server PNP4Nagios perfdata processing?

Andreas Ericsson ae at op5.se
Wed Oct 3 18:18:09 CEST 2012


On 10/03/2012 04:33 PM, Frost, Mark {BIS} wrote:
> Hello.  Has anyone come up with solutions for processing Nagios performance data on a server other than a Nagios server?   We've been processing perfdata results on our Nagios server(s) for a while now and increasingly it's just eating up too much I/O to make me comfortable.
> 
> Yes, we do use rrdcached and yes, I realize that shuffling data around on different disk spindles and controllers would help, but in today's world where companies don't like building any kind of physical server let alone one with all that additional hardware, that's not entirely an option for us.
> 
> I realize that once the perfdata files are on the dedicated graphing server(s), processing them into RRD files there should be a no-brainer.  My problem is figuring out how to get them there without say, using a NAS device.   (If I/O's a problem locally, I don't want to shuffle that I/O to an even slower network device).
> 
> It would be ideal if somehow there was a process that I could just send that data to and have it picked up remotely.  Like if maybe Merlin have a special kind of peer that just received a stream of perfdata or something.  Anything else I could imagine would be some kind of home-grown solution like say pumping events into a messaging system from the Nagios server(s) and then letting the graphing server pick them up from the message queue(s).  I could also imagine some kind of fancy-pants module in Nagios 4 that did something like this, maybe.
> 
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> 

Using the NERD radio you will be able to stream your checkresults
off-site (once the macro-processing patches are done, that is). It's
Nagios 4 only, but I know you've been looking at that already so
perhaps that's not be a big issue.

The "will be" is a bit of a showstopper though, but I have to have
it done by next wednesday.

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