monitoring specific individual queues - CRICKE T SUGGESTION

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

I would have thought that you'd dovetail cricket into the plugins, calling
them with args and defining what parameters you expect in return.  Or, write
a quick script as a wrapper around each plugin you want to use, and massage
the data that way.  Problem with this approach, is that you end up calling a
given plugin for Nagios, and again for cricket.

I would have liked to be able to tell cricket to munge the actual results
that Nagios uses, but wasn't sure how to go about doing that.

Hmm, now that I think about it, I suppose a Perl script using seek/tell
would let me munge the results of either nagios.log or status.log, although
I'm not entirely sure which one to use.

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Noble [mailto:jimmy97223 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 4:09 PM
> To: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] monitoring specific individual queues -
> CRICKET SUGGESTION
> 
> 
> Thanks for the info.  I have been playing with
> cricket, and maybe it is because I am a dumb newbie
> who knows nothing, but I am not seeing functionality
> for the viewing of traffic on specific protocols...
> 
> Should I be using a different frontend for RRDTool, or
> am I just making a dumb newbie goof/oversight?
> 
> thanks in advance...
> 
> --- "Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]"
> <jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com> wrote:
> > It depends what you mean by 'view'.
> > 
> > As Marc Powell suggested, you could use one of the
> > RRDTools:
> > 
> >
> http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/rrdworld/
> > 
> > This will let you collect data and present the
> > results visually (graphs).
> > This also allows you to view trends, which is always
> > good.  :)
> > 
> > OTOH, if by 'view' you actually mean 'to have a
> > finger on the pulse', then
> > Nagios (with the help of one or more plugins) should
> > do quite nicely.  Ask
> > yourself if you can get a result from a command line
> > for what you're trying
> > to ascertain, and if the answer is 'yes', then you
> > can monitor it in Nagios.
> > This will give you the advantage of being able to
> > set thresholds (warning,
> > critical) and be alerted in kind.
> > 
> > In summary:  If you want graphs and trending, use
> > RRDTool and a frontend.
> > If you want to be alerted, use Nagios.
> > 
> > jc
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: James Noble [mailto:jimmy97223 at yahoo.com]
> > > Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 4:44 AM
> > > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: [Nagios-users] monitoring specific
> > individual queues
> > > 
> > > 
> > > New guy here to Nagios with a question about the
> > core
> > > functionality.  Does Nagios have in its raw form a
> > > facilty by which to view multiple queues on a
> > network
> > > device and their traffic flow?  I guess this
> > should be
> > > asked in the context of RTP.  I am watching an
> > Avaya
> > > Cajun that is pushing VoIP traffic which is in the
> > > high-priority queue, and then there is the
> > > low-priority queue, which carries 90% of the rest
> > of
> > > the traffic.  I want to be able to watch the same
> > > parameters on an Allied Telesyn switch and compare
> > > performance between it and the Avaya.  Is this
> > going
> > > to necessitate a custom plugin, or is it something
> > > that I can do with config changes out of the box? 
> > I
> > > didn't see anything about htis in the
> > documentation,
> > > but I have seen thus far that the documentation is
> > > somewhat fuzzy as it relates to reality at this
> > point...
> > > 
> > > 
> > >
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