NDO Services

[Patrick Morris]

On Thu, 03 Aug 2006, Mike Koponick wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking at implementing syslog via Nagios in a distributed
> environment. I want to report historical information for network devices
> that output syslog information. Of course, I will be parsing out syslog
> information so I don't have a flood of traffic. I see how I can get the
> data to the Nagios central server, by using something like sec.pl, which
> will use the Nagios services, but when it goes to the NDO MySQL
> database, I think the ndo_servicestatus table gets updated, rather than
> appended to. 
> 
> Is there another way to send this type of data, and still keep a
> historical data via Nagios/NDO? I suppose I could use the ndo_logentries
> table, although it is very large.

It sounds to me (and I could be wrong here) like you're trying to get
Nagios to do something it's really not designed, or even fit, to do.
Nagios is definitely *not* a syslog server.  It's really good at
notifying based on triggers in a log, but to actually *be* the log
server?  

I have to wonder why you'd even try to do that when there are real
logservers out there that support storing logs in databases (syslog-ng
scomes to mind).

You could then use sec to send status information to Nagios, and let it
do what it's good at (tracking and notifying based on service states,
and it would automatically save the Critical/Warning/Recovery states you
sent it via NDO if you have it set up). You'd also have a real syslog 
server with a database back end, doing what it's good at.

Trying to hijack nagios databases so you can force them to hold data
they're not meant to hold just seems like a disaster in the making.

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