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Can I / Should I
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 9:09 am
by jdemille
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...
Re: Can I / Should I
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 9:19 am
by tmcdonald
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.
Re: Can I / Should I
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 9:01 pm
by Box293
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.
Re: Can I / Should I
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 5:43 pm
by jdemille
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.
Re: Can I / Should I
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 6:55 pm
by jdemille
tmcdonald -
Would you mind posting the host config for the demo you showed in your talk?
-jason
Re: Can I / Should I
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 5:12 pm
by tmcdonald
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.