<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2653.12"> <TITLE>RE: [Nagios-users] performance data from plugins - does it exist?</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Since I started this thread... Another thing to consider is what metrics to measure / keep? For example, a 3rd party monitoring service we use here keeps statistics on these metrics for HTTP: DNS Lookup Time Connection Time First Byte Content Download Redirect time Given, not all of it is relevant to HTTP, but it is all relevant to "user experience". But that's not the point. The point is that if there is going to be a system for collecting performance metrics, it should allow for a custom levels of verbosity. In an example: check_http -w 3 -c 8 -Pdcf www.nagios.org would yield performance data for dns lookup (d), connection time (c) and time to first byte (f) while check_http -w 3 -c 8 -Pcl www.nagios.org would yield performance data for connection time (c) and content download time (l). Finally, although nagios is only in a test phase here at my office, I would be interested in assisting with plugin modifications for performance data collection. I have already written a plugin (without performance data collection) that checks disk space for arbitrary partitions (ie: --path=/usr) using the net-snmp host resources mib via Net::SNMP and perl. I supect this conversation should be moved to nagiosplug-devel at this point... -- "Computer science is as much about computers as astronomy is about telescopes" -- Edsger Dijkstra --------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Tonns, UNIX Administrator - atonns@mail.ivillage.com -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Wittenberg [<A HREF="mailto:daniel-wittenberg@uiowa.edu">mailto:daniel-wittenberg@uiowa.edu</A>] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 12:45 PM To: Thomas Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] performance data from plugins - does it exist? The only part I worry about is the "modify source code from plugins". Not that I mind doing the coding, but if we do, just want to make sure these changes can be committed so it doesn't have to be re-done at every version. Dan On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 11:41, Thomas wrote: > hi, > > Ok, I'm going in, just let me a week to finish some important job, than > I will work with you to put an rrdtool into nagios > It would be cool to do a howto for the others who will want to put > performance graph into their nagios... sure when it will be finished ;) > So to sumup, > - put good infos in the file (means perhaps modify source code from plugins) > - extract them to put into rrdtool > - find a way to integrate them for each host (urlize or in extinfo ...) > - test & test > - do a howto > > Excuse me, but I'm a bit "speed" today, I got some important work, I > hope you understand my bad english > > Bye > Tom ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. <A HREF="http://thinkgeek.com/sf" TARGET="_blank">http://thinkgeek.com/sf</A> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net <A HREF="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" TARGET="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</A> </BODY> </HTML>