APAN

[Fredrik Wänglund]

Yes thats exactly what Apan is.
Apan's main advantage over RRDTool+frontend is that it's integrated in Nagios. Nagios is used to trigger alerts when proplems occur and you have one overall view of your hosts/networks/services-status.

Over to your qestion. How do you collect data to your RRD's today? Have those collectors the ability to trigger anything based on the return values? If they have, then you can use passive checks in Nagios to handle the alerts.


/FredrikW

-----Original Message-----
From:	Jamie [mailto:jamie at bclnz.net]
Sent:	Wed 30-Oct-02 23:26
To:	Nagios Users
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Subject:	[Nagios-users] APAN

Hi Nagios'ers,

I've been watching the APAN related emails fly past, and I've been asking
myself - "what is APAN?" - I'll need to explain this to other people
succinctly at some stage. This is what I've got so far:

"..APAN is an add-on to Nagios that is driven by the Nagios check process.
As checks are carried out, the results are logged in an RRD database, which
is used to display the historical performance data of the monitored
service..."

- Is that correct?

Question: What If I've got an RRDTool + Front end working perfectly well
already?. Can I use APAN (or does something exist) to *extract* from the RRD
db and compare against my defined service thresholds??

I hope I'm not too far off with my description above. Please correct me if
I'm wrong.

Cheers

Jamie





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