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Configure host-perfdata & service-perfdata log.

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:45 am
by abhishek.karmakar
Hi Team,

Can you please help me enable/configure below custom logs files.

1. /usr/local/nagios/var/host-perfdata

2. /usr/local/nagios/var/service-perfdata

Re: Configure host-perfdata & service-perfdata log.

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 1:27 pm
by scottwilkerson
I know these to be temporary storage for Nagios XI performance data that get cleared regularly, not log files...

Can you describe what you are looking to do?

Re: Configure host-perfdata & service-perfdata log.

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2020 2:33 am
by abhishek.karmakar
Thanks Scott for your reply.

We are trying to install "Splunk Add-on for Nagios Core" following the below instructions.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/A ... Core/Setup

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/A ... /loginputs

Hence as guided, trying to fetch the below files for Nagios logs which seems to be not updating in our case.

[monitor://$NAGIOS_HOME/var/host-perfdata]
sourcetype = nagios:core:hostperf

[monitor://$NAGIOS_HOME/var/service-perfdata]
sourcetype = nagios:core:serviceperf

Re: Configure host-perfdata & service-perfdata log.

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2020 5:14 am
by abhishek.karmakar
Hi Team,

While investigating further, we were able to locate the required dynamic files @ /var/nagiosramdisk/.

Thanks for your help on this.

Re: Configure host-perfdata & service-perfdata log.

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2020 7:49 am
by scottwilkerson
abhishek.karmakar wrote:Hi Team,

While investigating further, we were able to locate the required dynamic files @ /var/nagiosramdisk/.

Thanks for your help on this.
Ok, may we mark this resolved?

Re: Configure host-perfdata & service-perfdata log.

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:38 am
by abhishek.karmakar
Sure Scott. Please mark it resolved.

Re: Configure host-perfdata & service-perfdata log.

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2020 9:23 am
by scottwilkerson
abhishek.karmakar wrote:Sure Scott. Please mark it resolved.
Great!

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