Nagios Historical Data Question

Korrawit Yindeeyoungyeon skaaa.at0m at gmail.com
Mon Nov 15 10:25:29 CET 2010


Thank Marc Powell

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Marc Powell <lists at xodus.org> wrote:
>
> On Nov 15, 2010, at 2:06 AM, Korrawit Yindeeyoungyeon wrote:
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>> Hi, I'm new with Nagios. I have questions.
>>
>> 1.) Can Nagios keeps the historical data ? How?
>
> Yes, it does this by default. Historical data is kept in the archive directory, typically /usr/local/nagios/var/archives.
>
>> 2.) Now,I'm use flat file to keep the data.Can I get the historical data?
>
> Yes. Nagios only uses flat files for data. No special action is necessary and the web interface is used to display that data or you can parse the files and use the data on your own.
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>> 3.) Can Nagios work with MySQL? How?
>
> Not directly but there are addons available at http://exchange.nagios.org to tie nagios to MySQL for both configuration (i.e. front ends that store their data in MySQL, then generate the flat file with configuration data that nagios requires) and data retention for parsing/presentation by other third party apps (i.e. merlin or other alternative front end.)
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> Marc
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