Re: [Perfparse-users] No data in serviceperf.log file.

[Ben C. <Be...@cl...>]

Getting performance data out of Nagios seems so far to be the part which 
most bothers people.  Any help in this direction would I am sure be very 
well received by many people.

I look forward to getting the document,

Ben

Cook, Garry wrote:

> Yes. I have not spent much time yet actually installing perfparse. I
> took a quick look at it last Thursday before taking a little vacation. I
> hope to download the new version and continue working with it this week,
> as well as continue work on the HOW-TO. At this point, the HOW-TO is
> current up to the point where I needed to turn on Performance Data
> processing via the Nagios web page. So, it's really more of a 'Nagios
> Performance Data HOW-TO'. So, I'll see if I can clean this up a bit and
> send it over to you later today.
> 
> Garry W. Cook, CCNA
> Network Infrastructure Manager
> MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
> 303.308.6228 (Office) - 720.220.1862 (Mobile)
> 
> Ben Clewett wrote:
> 
>>Garry, I am very glad to hear that it works for you.  It does sound a
>>bit odd.  I never had to turn it on here.  Can you remember
>>ever turning
>>it off?
>>
>>You you be able to put together a check-list of all the
>>things which you
>>had to do to get the data.  Which we can put live on the site
>>and link
>>from the web page?  I dread to think from the 130+ people who have
>>downloaded perfparse, how many have also given up because of
>>this problem.
>>
>>Well, enjoy using the product,
>>
>>Ben
>>
>>Cook, Garry wrote:
>>
>>
>>>No, that wasn't the issue. However, I did finally find the solution!
>>>I opened my Nagios web page, and went to the 'Process Info' page. At
>>>the bottom of the Process Information box I saw:
>>>
>>>"Performance Data Being Processed?     No"
>>>
>>>So, in the 'Process Commands' box I clicked on "Enable performance
>>>data". This solved the problem.
>>>
>>>Did I miss something somewhere? Shouldn't the changes to the config
>>>files make performance data active? In other words, is this a bug
>>>that I've found or do you think it was Ethan's intention to have us
>>>enable it in the configs and then have to manually turn it on via
>>>the web page? If it was intentional, then the docs should be updated.
>>>
>>>I've copied Ethan directly on this message, rather than clutter up
>>>the Nagios list any further. 
>>>
>>>-g
> 
>