Re: [Perfparse-devel] Perparse Method 4 (pipe) - patch proposal

[Ben C. <bcl...@pe...>]

Daniele,

>>I'm currently using nagios 1.2 and perfparse 0.105.5 on a test
>>environment on a FreeBSD 5.3, monitoring some host and servicies.
> 
> Any compilation problem, or can we consider that it works as perfectly on FreeBSD as on
> Linux ?

You may want to go to wiki.perfparse.org and vote for FreeBSD.  These 
polls will give us a good idea of what people use, what they want, and 
where we need to develop in the future :)

>>I appreciate a lot the summary feature and I'd like to know if it's
>>planned a graphical representation and, if yes, if it's planned in a
>>short-range or middle-range time.
> 
> 
> I let Ben, Tim and others to answer this question.

Thanks to Tim for giving us the data.

I plan two graphical representations of this:

1. A pie-chart showing proportion of OK,WARN,CRITICAL,UNKNOWN from the 
total's line.

2. A histergram showing the percent of each of the four states over the 
selected time period.

Yves and my self are discussing methods of rewriting our 'perfchart' 
program to make more generic.  When we have agreed, my self (or somebody 
else?) can have a go at these.

I also plan to use Tim's data to complete an Outage Report.  This will 
display data for a group of Hosts, Services, Groups or All data.  Within 
this collection you will get a summary for the time period, and a 
overall summary.  Again with the same two graphics.

I think that this Outage Report will really give PP a powerful feature.

This is because this is often a model used by IT managers to check 
quality of their network.  The bottom line on quality is the outage 
report.  I note every service I pay for always quotes the '99.99%' 
figure.  Well, now people using PP can prove it!

If we can give that for all services for a whole years data, this is 
something very powerful.

All this summary work also needs to be completed for PostgreSQL, which 
is currently lacking this ability.

Regards,

Ben.