<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7651.14"> <TITLE>Re: [Nagios-devel] Message passing between host/service check plugin.</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  I haven't messed with the ndo at all (which may be able to store arbitrary data for a host in a table?), but if you use cacti to do your snmp polling, you not only get nice trending data visually, but can use db acceses for the host if you want yo look up further data... Or just pull the values you want our of the rrd for that host:if /eli -----Original Message----- From: nagios-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net <nagios-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net> To: nagios-devel@lists.sourceforge.net <nagios-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thu Oct 19 11:30:28 2006 Subject: [Nagios-devel] Message passing between host/service check plugin. Hi Group, Am i the only person in here needing a way to pass someting to a check plugin, from the last invocation ? I don't like using snmp OID values for my plugin executions, som i use the interfacename to poll the status via SNMP. To do this i have to walk the ifDescr snmp table. Once i find the interface index, i can poll status, IN/Out Octets etc... The next time the same service get's checked it would be nice to pass the last dermined interface index, and only test if the index still has the correct IfDescr. To do this i rely on temporary files today, this is a mess. I could pass the index in the $SERVICEOUTPUT$ output, but that could potentialy clutter up the information, displayed as the check message, i could also use $SERVICEPERFDATA$,but that is used for performance data, and get's passed to external performance collector stuff. I would like to have the possibility for a 3rd field in the check output, getting stored in a $SERVICETEMPDATA$ which could be used for about anything toaking care thath the string will be limited in size. Kind Regards, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo <A HREF="http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642">http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642</A> _______________________________________________ Nagios-devel mailing list Nagios-devel@lists.sourceforge.net <A HREF="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-devel">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-devel</A> </BODY> </HTML>