RE: [Nagios-devel] Embedded Perl

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RE: [Nagios-devel] Embedded Perl

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> Nagios currently uses the embedded perl interpreter to execute perl
> plugins without the additional overhead of starting the interpreter
> everytime.

Okay, is it automatically done when you compile Nagios with embedded
perl support?

> The only way you can use it currently is to write perl plugins.

This it what I assumed ...

> When you say extension - what type of extension are you envisioning?
> On the cgi/web interface? or on the scheduling/monitoring side?

My Netsaint/Nagios host becomes the local loghost, where every
syslogable machine will log to, and that's a lot. I use MySQL for
storing all the syslog stuff, and now I use Nagios for analysing
what's going on. The idea is to have a plugin for cross-checking the
database for words like "refused" "error" and all the bad things which
happens every day, and returning Warning or Critical when it is found.
For this I need a plugin.

For the cgi/web interface I will build something like showlog.cgi
together with histogram.cgi, but that's still for away.

Thanks for answering, also Chet Luther who suggested using mod_perl.
I will think about.

Best regards
Alex Kuehne

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Network Manager, SAG, Berlin, Germany






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