strategic question: MySQL vs. no MySQL vs. RR DTool

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

Okay, I'll buy that.

But in most cases, the text string contains values, the same values that you
would normally stuff into an rrd.  The exception to this would be check_log,
where you're interested in the raw text, and taking action based on that.

However, I'm starting to sway over to using MySQL with Nagios.  Now I'm
faced with some logistical problems:

- I've seen quite a few folks complain about getting Nagios and MySQL to
work together nicely
- I don't want to impact my live system (but it looks like I may have to)
- I suspect I will lose all my current historical data
- I don't know how much disk space I should expect the MySQL data to consume
(ie, bytes/service/month)

Would anyone care to comment?

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Liles [mailto:lilesb at ijet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 11:08 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] strategic question: MySQL vs. no MySQL vs.
> RRDTool
> 
> 
> One reason is because you can't store everything in a rrd.  For
> instance, if I want to keep the actual plugin return string.  Not just
> the ok,warning, critical, but the the text string, rrd isn't really
> going to do much for me.
> 
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:28:48 -0600
> "Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]" <jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com> wrote:
> 
> > Maybe I'm overlooking the obvious, but... what's the advantage from
> > moving from a 'default' install to having Nagios to MySQL?  What's
> > getting stored there?  The results of the checks?  If so, what's the
> > advantage of having detailed results from 16 months ago?
> > 
> > I'm asking this because I'm familiar with the design and intent of
> > RRDTool.
> > 
> > I'd appreciate some discussion on this topic, especially 
> comparing the
> > intent of using MySQL vs. using something like RRDTool.
> > 
> > jc
> > 
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