ndoutils and historical performance data

[Mike Conigliaro]

hey chris, thanks for the response, but im not sure what you mean about 
the performance output being "free form."  i always thought there was a 
defined spec:

http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html#AEN202

im also not sure why code would be needed from the perfparse project. 
what im suggesting is that there would be advantages to having ndoutils 
parse the performance output in real time as the host/service check 
results are received.  are there some disadvantages im not aware of?  it 
seems like this could be done pretty easily with a regular expression 
and a loop to do the appropriate table inserts.

even if there are no plans to incorporate graphing into the new nagios 
web interface, why not make it easier us 3rd party developers?  my point 
is that if the parsed performance data was stored somewhere (perhaps in 
its own table), it would be trivial to generate graphs from it.


Christoph Maser wrote:
> mike conigliaro schrieb:
>> my question is, are there any plans to store performance data in a way that is 
>> more friendly for report generation?  or am i just missing something?
>>
>>   
> 
> Since performance output is a free form text-string i doubt it. The
> plugins from nagiosplugins.sf.net follow a standard wich is documented
> in their developer guidelines. I could imagine to re-use the code of
> perfparse or similar projects. It might also be useful to submit one
> implemantation to Nagios::Plugin project as reference.
> 
> Chris
> 

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