<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4937.800" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Arial"> <DIV>hi folks,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>i'am new here in the maillist and i have some questions.....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>we are running FreeBSD since 1996 and we change from netsaint to nagios recently. in our ISP environment we have to monitor about 500-600 devices and it works fine. if we want to see some historical datas the system perform soooo slow because the log files grew very fast. file rotation has many disadvantages so we would like to change to mysql support.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>now, for my understanding i would like to know if we write all loggin informations into mysql, ist it possible that all status and hirarchial datas can be accessed by nagios from this db? or do i still need any flat files?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>all the config can keep in the conf files because this is not the problem.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>thanks</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Marcel Sauder</DIV> <DIV>siconline / switzerland</DIV></BODY></HTML>