nagios && rrd

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

You should see the sample code for JpGraph.  It's jaw-droppingly simple.  :)
Compare that to trying to create an RRD from scratch.  ;)

jc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Baddeley [mailto:jamie.baddeley at vpc.co.nz]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 6:33 PM
> To: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios && rrd
> 
> 
> good god Jim - are you crazy? Do you mean write code rather 
> than hack it?
> 
> what are they feeding you there?
> 
> :-)
> 
> jamie
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]" <jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com>
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 8:32 AM
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] nagios && rrd
> 
> 
> > If I could make a suggestion for 'thinking outside the box', why use
> RRDtool
> > at all?  Consider the following components:
> >
> > - PHP
> > - JpGraph http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/
> > - MySQL (or PostgreSQL)
> >
> > Periodically slurp serviceperf.log and dump into MySQL.  
> Hit PHP to query
> > the database and drive the JpGraph-based output on demand.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > jc
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mark [mailto:mark at woodstream.net]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 1:26 PM
> > > To: Subhendu Ghosh
> > > Cc: John Sellens; jason at cannonfodder.org;
> > > nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios && rrd
> > >
> > >
> > > Sure. I looked at APAN and here is what I didn't like. 
> The main thing
> > > was that I had to manually create an rrd store for each thing
> > > I wanted
> > > to graph. While this is fine for small, static shops, larger
> > > places with
> > > a somewhat dynamic base will quickly get tired of this. 
> That is why I
> > > like Orca. All I have to do is feed it a log file and it 
> creates and
> > > manages the rrd for me. Beyond install, I never have to touch
> > > rrd. The
> > > second, minor, thing is creating a service for each APAN
> > > item. Now it's
> > > true, I have to create a service for each thing I want to monitor
> > > anyway. But if I all ready have say 5k+ services, adding APAN
> > > to those
> > > could become tedious. Again, I'm thinking I could write some
> > > quick logic
> > > that feeds the data into Orca / rrd without my intervention.
> > > This should
> > > be easy as the HOSTNAME, HOSTALIAS, HOSTADDRESS, SERVICE, etc. are
> > > available.
> > >
> > > So, dynamic creation of rrd objects and a more variable
> > > based, centralized
> > > method for adding the APAN services would be my suggestions.
> > > Again, the
> > > dynamic rrd creation is the big one.
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > > On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> > >
> > > > Before you go off and start coding - any comments or 
> suggestion for
> > > > improvement with APAN?
> > > >
> > > > -sg
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, mark wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I agree. This is a solution that I plan on implementing
> > > also. I have
> > > > > heard / seen at least one other person mention this also.
> > > Sounds like
> > > > > it's about time one (or all) of us got on with it and get
> > > Orca working
> > > > > with Nagios.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Jason, did you have any ideas on how you were going to
> > > hand the data to
> > > > > Orca? I see two options, you could run a process for each
> > > piece of data,
> > > > > which would be each event(?), and run Orca in the rrd
> > > insert only mode.
> > > > > Or, you could write to a log file and have Orca batch
> > > load the data. The
> > > > > second is my choice but I haven't come up with a clear /
> > > clean way to
> > > > > write the data to logs in a format that Orca likes. I
> > > think I would need
> > > > > a log for each host and possibly for each service. Anyone
> > > else come to a
> > > > > similar conclusion?
> > > > >
> > > > > Mark
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, John Sellens wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > | From: Jason Burnett <jason at cannonfodder.org>
> > > > > > | Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:15:55 -0500
> > > > > > |
> > > > > > | Is anyone else using RRD to process the service-perf
> > > data? If so, what
> > > > > > | are you using to parse out the $PERFDATA$ & $OUTPUT$
> > > info? We are
> > > > > > | working on perl to parse it out and put it in RRD for
> > > us, but if
> > > > > > | someone has found an easier way to do this please 
> let me know.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > My belief, which I haven't implemented yet, is that a good
> > > > > > graphing/trending mechanism is to log the host and
> > > service perfdata
> > > > > > from within Nagios, and then use Orca
> > (http://www.orcaware.com/orca/)
> > > > > to insert the data into RRD files and manage the HTML 
> interface.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm reasonably optimistic that this is a good idea.
> > > > >
> > > > > John
> > > > > jsellens at generalconcepts.com
> > > > >
> > >
> >
> >
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