[Perfparse-devel] Re: [Perfparse-users] Nagiostast Utility integration to PP

[Yves <yme...@pe...>]

I'm moving to perfparse-devel as this is a question for developers.
Tamas, please subscribe to perfparse-devel mailing list for a while if yo=
u want to
follow the thinking.



> Sorry, nagiostat and PerfParse use different data storage.  At the
> moment, one or the other.

There should be no reasons to have the same data storage.
Nagios is the monitoring tool that writes status.dat and send data to per=
fparse.
nagiostat seems to be only a parser for status.dat.

Because perfparse gets the same data as the ones that nagios stores into =
status.dat (and
gets more, a lot more), perfparse should be able to generate such reports=
 too, without
the help of nagiostat.

For that reason, I think that perfparse will never use nagiostat to parse=
 status.dat.
When I say perfparse, understand the parser of perfparse.

However, we can think perfparse has 2 sides. On one side, the parser (you=
 know my
opinion now). On the other side, the GUI. What about the GUI calling nagi=
ostat to
generate graphs and draw the data from nagiostat ? Why having the GUI con=
nected to only
the perfparse parser ? Why not connect the GUI to other tools, perfparsed=
 and its
database, but also nagiostat ?

But this is only an idea, to make developers think. I don't know if this =
is a good or
bad idea. Maybe having a menu, with options to redirect to the perfparse =
GUI, to some
nagiostat GUI, and to the nagios CGI is a better idea ?

> I don't use nagiostat so I cannot comment on the ability of this system=
,
>   if there are other members who can comment on how it compares, I woul=
d
> be interested in knowing my self :)

Try to know what nagiostat exactly does, and if perfparsed/storage module=
s/perfparse GUI
can do the same or if it should call nagiostat.
Are perfparse and nagiostat competitors or complementary ?



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