Re: [Nagios-devel] Nagios from traces.
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:37 am
Andrew Tjang wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am trying to get Nagios to read from traces. I'm having difficulty on
> figuring out where to begin.
>
> I want to do this because I don't have direct access to the machines
> i'll be monitoring. I need to periodically ship the monitored data from
> the hosts to the nagios machine, parse the files and then update nagios.
> The parsing part I think i can do fine. It's the part that involves
> modifying Nagios to read from file rather than query hosts that I need
> help with.
>
> I'd like to keep the same config file format, but just modify the
> monitoring sections to read from file based on those configs. Is there
> any place you could recommend that I start looking?
I don't know what traces is, but if you need to parse logs on the local
machine just write a check_... plugin which does this, returns
OK/WARNING/CRITICAL upon the parse result and returns CRITICAL if the
file is not updated since a configurable time.
> Thank you in advance for your assistance,
> -Andrew
Chris
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> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am trying to get Nagios to read from traces. I'm having difficulty on
> figuring out where to begin.
>
> I want to do this because I don't have direct access to the machines
> i'll be monitoring. I need to periodically ship the monitored data from
> the hosts to the nagios machine, parse the files and then update nagios.
> The parsing part I think i can do fine. It's the part that involves
> modifying Nagios to read from file rather than query hosts that I need
> help with.
>
> I'd like to keep the same config file format, but just modify the
> monitoring sections to read from file based on those configs. Is there
> any place you could recommend that I start looking?
I don't know what traces is, but if you need to parse logs on the local
machine just write a check_... plugin which does this, returns
OK/WARNING/CRITICAL upon the parse result and returns CRITICAL if the
file is not updated since a configurable time.
> Thank you in advance for your assistance,
> -Andrew
Chris
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