Re: [Nagios-db-devel] nagios-db

[Ben <be...@si...>]

Have you attempted to read the readme? I tried to give an explanation 
of how it works in there..... if it makes no sense to you, what part 
should be rewritten?

On Mar 23, 2005, at 8:00 PM, Brett Stevens wrote:

> Great, can you let me know and Ill assist with testing and doco if you 
> like.
> I have a real need to get a thorough understandin on how this works. 
> What I
> want to do is integrate nagios and cacti. If I can get enough info on 
> how
> this works I think this would be the way.
>
> Thanks
>
> Brett Stevens
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben [mailto:be...@si...]
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:29 PM
> To: Brett Stevens
> Cc: 'barry haycock'; nag...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-db-devel] nagios-db
>
>
> Wow, I didn't realize people would find it so challenging. Then again,
> I guess I did write it, so maybe I'm not an average user.
>
> I'm currently making (what I hope will be) a massive performance
> improvement for the postgres inserter, and once I'm satisfied with that
> work, I'll make some actual documentation.
>
> On Mar 23, 2005, at 6:38 PM, Brett Stevens wrote:
>
>> I had the same question last week, tho it was for postgres. What I did
>> was to check out the latest inserter.c Modify inserter.c to give the
>> correct details for db login
>> 	if(!(pgconn = PQconnectdb("host=I.P.a.d port=whatever
>> dbname=ultrasecret user=whatever"))) Make
>> Copied the file inserter.o to nagios/bin
>> Chown to correct user
>> Modify nagios.cfg
>>    	event_broker_options=-1
>> 	broker_module=/usr/local/nagios/bin/inserter.o
>> Started database server
>> Created and configured db schema as follows
>> Order is important here.
>>
>> 1. Create your database.
>> 2. Apply handlers.sql.
>> 3. Apply schema.sql.
>> 4. Apply types.sql
>> 5. Apply SPs/*.
>> 6. Apply views.sql.
>>
>> This will be different for mysql but the readme in the database/mysql
>> dir
>> will tell you exactly what you will need to build your db
>> Kill -HUP nagios -- all done
>>
>> This was after much pain and angst, I think Ill have to write this up
>> a little better and submit it to the team.
>>
>> Good luck and let us know how you made out.
>>
>> Brett Stevens
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: barry haycock [mailto:sat...@ya...]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 1:27 PM
>> To: nag...@li...
>> Subject: [Nagios-db-devel] nagios-db
>>
>>
>> Hi, I have recently aquired nagios-db to plug into our
>> nagios (2.0b2) system. looking through the software
>> and this list there doesn't seem to be any docs to
>> configure it.
>>
>> i have built the software for use with mysql and
>> compiled the src files. but how do i configure nagios
>> to work with nagios-db???
>>
>> i have a number of years experience with nagios and
>> it's predececor netsaint so i am familar with the
>> config files.
>>
>> any notes would help, I wouldn't mind submitting my
>> final notes as part of the documentation when i get
>> the system working.
>>
>> Barry
>>
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