orca with Nagios logs

[Frater, Greg J]

Have any of the host/service checks had the performance data support added?
According to the current Nagios doc's none had as of the writing of the
documentation.  If not is there any kind of time frame for this?  

Looks like the framework is there for this type of functionality but not
quite ready for prime time.  Apan is a great start in the right direction,
but needs more plugins and a little more maturity for us.  We unfortunately
are in prime time and don't have the programming resources to build on the
current framework.  I may be able to make an elementary crack at some of the
performance stuff after we get our monitoring system in production mode.

I will definitely be watching this area with interest and if my schedule
works out may try to do something with the existing functionality.   

-----Original Message-----
From: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] [mailto:jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com]
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 3:24 PM
To: Frater, Greg J; 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] orca with Nagios logs


I've gotten as far as downloading Orca and taking a cursory look at the
docs.  I also reconfigured/recompiled nagios with the --with-file-perfdata
option, then defined the xpdfile_service_perfdata_file directive in
nagios.cfg.  I found the output to be pretty much what the doctor ordered,
but I've still been giving this some thought.

I've been wondering that if one configures/compiles nagios with
--with-mysql-xdata, then would the necessary data be there to be able to do
time-series graphing?

Even as I write this, I'm looking over JpGraph:

  http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/

and wondering if this, plus PHP, plus the GD library, plus MySQL, aren't
just the ticket for creating reports on-the-fly...?  This way, we might be
able to select a host, a timeperiod, and between 1 and N services, and
kicking out graphs which would tell us what we need to know.

The obvious win is that the data should only be written once (MySQL), thus
keeping disk I/O down to a dull roar.  I can't imagine any environment where
there would be more than a handful of browsers set to refresh every 90
seconds, and thus the impact on the 'image creation' side should be nominal.

Perhaps someone could scrutinize my idea...?

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frater, Greg J [mailto:gjfrater at bechtel.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 3:25 PM
> To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: [Nagios-users] orca with Nagios logs
> 
> 
> Hello All, 
> 
> Has anyone looked into using Orca (http://www.orcaware.com/orca/) to
> generate rrd files for generating performance data graphs of 
> Nagios checks?
> The web site says it can read data from arbitrary log files 
> and put it into
> an rrd.  Just wondering if anyone has tried this with Nagios logs.
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Greg Frater
> WTP IT dept.
> 509 371 3537
> gjfrater at bechtel.com
> 
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