[op5-users] merlin perf. data

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 10/29/2009 09:32 PM, Russell Jennings wrote:
> I do hate to be a bother about this, (as I'm sure there's plenty of
> other, better things to take care of) but i want to deploy merlin
> across several sites shortly, and the one thing i really can't live
> without is the performance data. I am aware that there is a bug
> tracking # for this (https://bugs.op5.com/view.php?id=2788) but i
> wanted to know if there is anyway i could coerce performance data out
> of merlin and into nagios, even if it is in a roundabout way?  my
> option #2 is purely passive checks and send_nsca, which would work,
> but is... definitely a step in some other direction entirely, which at
> this point i'd really not rather do.
>
> So, i'm hoping there's something trivial i can do to get performance
> data to start graphing, though i know it's probably not THAT easy. A
> shot in the dark, i figure, but better than not asking at all.
>

Not exactly trivial, but not exactly rocket-science either. You could
write a small script to pull performance-data from the status.log file
and register it from there with your performance-data gatherer.

A second alternative is to make Merlin call Nagios' own performance
data handling routines when it receives a checkresult from a poller
node. That would be a better thing for sure. If it's not difficult,
I might have something which works by the end of the day.

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