Can I / Should I

jdemille · Post by **jdemille** » Fri Apr 17, 2015 9:09 am

Is it a good idea to use nagios to collect lots of data about a particular space, I would like to use it to collect lots of data such as Temp, Lighting Info, Number of people in the building Etc. I have lots of sensors that can easily send the info via Passive checks. I would like to store the data in mysql and run reports with crystal reports.

There could be thousands of spaces reporting pretty consistently. I would like to use Nagios because somethings would need to be acted on over temps, stale data etc...

tmcdonald · Post by **tmcdonald** » Fri Apr 17, 2015 9:19 am

I did a talk at our conference on this exact thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9yUpLrC5w

More focused on custom hardware than anything, but still worth taking a look.

Post by **Box293** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 9:01 pm

This is one of my favourite things about Nagios, if you can talk to a device then you can monitor it in Nagios and collect the performance data for historical trends later.

jdemille · Post by **jdemille** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 5:43 pm

Great Very Cool, So the number of potential sensors doesn't seem to be a concern. I'll start hacking together a proof of concept.

jdemille · Post by **jdemille** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 6:55 pm

tmcdonald -

Would you mind posting the host config for the demo you showed in your talk?

-jason

tmcdonald · Post by **tmcdonald** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 5:12 pm

Sorry for the late reply - this section of the forum was not showing new posts for some reason.

I don't have the config on-hand anymore, but it was basically whatever would have been created by the Unconfigured Objects wizard.

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