On 21 Oct 2002 at 15:00, Dougal Scott wrote:
>
> > As far as logging events, etc. to a DB in addition to the default log
> > file, that will be easy to do once I finish writing an external addon
> > specifically for this purpose. Basically Nagios will pass
> > information (log entries, check results, events, etc.) to an exernal
> > daemon. That daemon will be able to load user-defined modules that
> > can handle some or all of that data any way they choose (modules will
> > register callback functions for different types of data they want at
> > load time). A simple module might trap host/service alerts and all
> > log file entries and dump them into a DB. Other modules might take
> > performance data from host/service checks and dump it to a DB, pipe
> > it into an RRDTool-enabled app, etc.
>
> Aaargh! Typical! Just finished writing code to use a DB for all the log
> stuff, just going through finial testing now. Are people still
> interested in this, or would they prefer to wait for the new system?
>
Don't despair! I'm sure many people will use the patch if you
continue and release it, so don't give up on it. Besides, modifying
it to work with the external daemon in 2.0 should be fairly easy.
Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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