event broker -> SQL questions

[Ben]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> > It seems to me that a {HOST,SERVICE}_STATUS event would only be fired 
> > after the check had happened, so that would imply that this would always 
> > be true if it was what you think it is. But that wouldn't make for a 
> > useful datapoint, so I think we are both confused. :)
>
> I think Nagios just dumps all the data in the object struct to whatever 
> is listening in the receiving end and doesn't differ between if the data 
> passing takes place as the result of a timed event or as the result of 
> some sort of state change. I know modules can schedule data to be passed 
> at regular intervals as well as on events, so I guess that must be the 
> answer.

Yes, but that still means that STATUS messages are still generated after a 
check, right?
 
> > I don't understand.... but that's ok, I understand enough to know that I 
> > can ignore this for now. :) My SQL inserts are only to speed up the CGIs 
> > and reports.
> > 
> 
> I'm really interested in having a look at what you've done. Perhaps I 
> can improve it somehow and we could both benefit from it. Is it GPL'd or 
> do you have some proprietary copyright on it?

Well, I have almost nothing yet except for a budding schema, a rough plan,
and the go-ahead from my managers. :) Once I get something working I'll be
more than happy to share the love. I would be estatic if I could get the 
code included in contrib/




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