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I see that there already are facilities do to exactly what i described:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/perfdata.html


I will look into this and write some patches for plugins that do not
support this yet. After that i will make some standard onfigurations
for external logging to rrdtool.


On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Edwin Eefting wrote:

> I'm currently thinking of a new way to do performance data gathering with
> nagios and rrdtool. (to create those nice graphs
>
> Currently there's a nice project called apan, but it doesn't intergrate
> nicely with nagios. (you'll have to do a some things double, configure a
> lot of complicated stuff etc.)
>
> I purpose the following method to add performance data graphs to nagios:
>
> A generic way to let the current plugins return performance data that
> nagios can store in rrdtool. This way it wouldn't matter if i use
> check_disk with nrpe, or nagios_statd, or any other method. The current
> plugins only need a slight modification to return the data in some generic
> format. Perhaps we can add a "field" to the current returned data and let
> plugins return something like:
>
> DISK OK - [1000000 kB (10%) free on /dev/sda1]
> curr=9000000,max=10000000
>
> So we add a new line with performance data thats easy to interpret and is
> formatted in a generic way. So "curr" is always the current value of
> a service, and "max" always will be the maximum value.
>
> What do you think of this? Any suggestions for this system, or should we
> just do it and submit our patches?
>
>

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