<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Just curious what the plans are to integrate a database system (mysql, postgres, etc) with Nagios? I’ve been playing with Nagios 1.2 for a few weeks now and we are looking at using it primarily as our network health monitoring and paging system, however in order to that a much more user friendly administration method must be created. The current method of editing the .cfg files via a shell is not necessarily the most difficult method ever but from a day to day standpoint tends to be a lot more work than should be necessary. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> What my plans were (should we decide to use Nagios as our full time monitoring system) was to create a web based front end that used a mysql database to store host, service, and contact information and then in turn use my front end scripts to update the nagios SQL database and also write/overwrite the actual .cfg files that nagios currently uses. That way the program actually gets updated and sync’d with the database even though its still only actually loading its configuration from the files. This scenario would work fine although I’m not a fan of hacking something together just to get it to function properly when its possible to get it functioning the “correct” way if that is in fact coming soon.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Does Nagios 2.0 have any further database support for hosts and services or is it still completely file based for host and service records? Just curious as to what my options might be here before we make a decision and I start rattling out some scripts to handle the system as described above. From what I’ve been reading there isn’t much for a plan to integrate database storage methods into Nagios any time in the very near future so … just curious if I’m correct there and that doing this front end is about my only option right now for a timely solution?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks in advance for any input.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> -------------------<o:p></o:p> Travis Dangel<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>