Clarification of perfdata configuration

[Craig Stewart]

Actually, now that you ask, no I'm not.

Some of my plugins (pre-built) seem to be, but the custom scripts
aren't.  That's my bad, and I'll fix it ASAP.  I would think, however,
that the plugins that are returning performance data would populate the
files.

I'm attaching two screen captures to illustrate.  And before anyone
points out the insane check latency, that's what I'm fighting!

Craig

Craig Stewart
Systems Integration Analyst
Craig.Stewart at corp.xplornet.com Tel: (506) 328-1245 Cell: (506) 425-0111
Xplornet - Broadband, Everywhere

On 06/13/2011 10:22 PM, Yueh-Hung Liu wrote:
> are you sure your checks will return performance data along with check
> outputs?
> 
> BR
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Craig Stewart
> <Craig.Stewart at corp.xplornet.com> wrote:
>> Good day all!
>>
>> It's me again.  Before I get too detailed, I'd just like a sanity check
>> on what is supposed to happen.  Let's say we have a nagios.cfg series of
>> entries like this:
>>
>>
>> host_perfdata_file=/tmp/host.perfdata
>>
> host_perfdata_template=$HOSTNAME$\t$HOSTSTATEID$\t$HOSTOUTPUT$\t$HOSTOUTPUT$
>> service_perfdata_file=/tmp/service.perfdata
>>
> service_perfdata_template=$HOSTNAME$\t$SERVICEDESC$\t$SERVICESTATE$\t'$SERVICEOUTPUT$'
>> host_perfdata_file_mode=a
>> service_perfdata_file_mode=a
>>
>> If I understand this correctly, the Nagios process opens the two files
>> and starts appending the information in the format supplied above,
> correct?
>>
>> I've checked, and Nagios is opening the files.
>>
>> [root at g-caon-spdtst-tor01 tmp]# lsof | grep perfdata
>> nagios 6941 nagios 6w REG 8,3 0 1983833 /tmp/host.perfdata
>> nagios 6941 nagios 7w REG 8,3 0 1983834 /tmp/service.perfdata
>> [root at g-caon-spdtst-tor01 tmp]# ps awx | grep nagios
>>  6941 ?        Ssl    0:12 /usr/sbin/nagios -d /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
>> [root at g-caon-spdtst-tor01 tmp]# ls -l *.perfdata
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 0 2011-06-13 18:01 host.perfdata
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 0 2011-06-13 18:01 service.perfdata
>> [root at g-caon-spdtst-tor01 tmp]#
>>
>> If I understand all of the above, this file should be collecting the
>> information dumped to it, and getting larger and larger and larger....
>>
>> As it stands, nothing is going into the files.
>>
>> Thoughts?  I'm sure it's something simple and I'm overlooking it.
>>
>> System specs:
>> Nagios Core 3.2.0
>> Copyright (c) 2009 Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors
>> Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad
>> Last Modified: 08-12-2009
>> License: GPL
>> [root at g-caon-spdtst-tor01 tmp]# uname -a
>> Linux g-caon-spdtst-tor01 2.6.27.29-170.2.79.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Aug
>> 14 20:49:37 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Craig
>>
>> --
>> Craig Stewart
>> Systems Integration Analyst
>> Craig.Stewart at corp.xplornet.com
>> Xplornet - Broadband, Everywhere
>>
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