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

[Horvath T. <zs...@ax...>]

Hi Yves and Listmembers!

I'm afraid I mispelled the utility name. So my question is about Nagiostats.
Accoring to Nagios 2.0 documentation: "A utility called nagiostats is
included in the Nagios distribution. It is compiled and installed along with
the main Nagios daemon. 

The nagiostats utility allows you to obtain various information about a
running Nagios process. You can obtain information either in human-readable
or MRTG-compatible format." Please see the following link:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/nagiostats.html

So it provides performance data about Nagios operation and not about
plugins.

Is PP capable of represent the same data?

I'm sorry the typo.
Thanks in advance, Tamas!


-----Original Message-----
From: Yves [mailto:yme...@pe...] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 10:39 AM
To: Ben Clewett
Cc: Horvath Tamas; per...@li...
Subject: Re: [Perfparse-users] Nagiostast Utility integration to PP

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 you
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
perfparse.
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
nagiostat to
generate graphs and draw the data from nagiostat ? Why having the GUI
connected 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 would
> be interested in knowing my self :)

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



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