Integrating Nagios with Test Driven Development

[ranjib dey]

Well, monitoring tools like nagios are more used against in production or
mission critical infrastructure/apps. While unit tests are a part of
development practices and there are dedicated tools (called as Continuous
Integration tools) used for checking unit tests outputs. Jenkin/Hudson,
crucise control, goldberg, Go etc are few of them. These tools can monitor a
code repository (git/svn/hg etc) and pull in new commits and then run the
unit/functional test automatically and then notify/alert accordingly.

If your unit tests are failing, then it means they are not going via a CI
tool.  To me testing and monitoring are pretty different.

Never the less, i like the idea :-). We do use nagios-cucumber for work flow
monitoring against some of our apps.

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Vonnahme, Nathan <
nathan.vonnahme at bannerhealth.com> wrote:

>  Hello Nagios devs,
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> I’ve been pretty dormant on these lists for a while, partly because our
> Nagios installation is humming along so merrily, and partly because my job
> has changed to be more development-oriented and less sysadmin-oriented. But
> I had a great idea (imho) last week and I’ve implemented and wrote about it
> and I want to share it with you and solicit feedback.
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> In a nutshell, I’ve written a plugin to integrate Nagios with any software
> testing tool that emits TAP (Test Anything Protocol), such as Perl test
> scripts and unit and functional tests written in a bunch of different
> languages.
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> I’ve described it in detail in a blog post:
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> http://n8v.enteuxis.org/2011/06/integrating-nagios-with-test-driven-development/
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> And the code is on GitHub:
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>   https://gist.github.com/1005409
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> I’ve been pretty excited about the idea and have already been using it in
> production to improve several parts of our Nagios monitoring.
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> Please take a look at it and let me know your thoughts via these lists or
> comments on the blog or Gist.
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> Thanks,
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> nathan
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> --
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> Nathan.Vonnahme at BannerHealth.com
>
> Software Engineer Sr at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital     1650 Cowles St,
> Fairbanks, Alaska 99701      907-458-5464
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