[Perfparse-users] Re: PerfParse Question

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

Christohe,

The --delete option does not quite restart Nagios.  It sends a SIGHUP to 
the pid.  Nagios responds by re-reading it's files, and crucially, 
re-opening serviceperf.log.  Therefore allowing us to safely move this 
file to another name, which is later deleted.

This should not effect Nagios.  If you are finding it does effect 
Nagios, please let us know exactly how.

You do have another option.  Don't use the --delete option on a normal 
parse.  Then once a day, or once every few days, run:

perfparse -r --delete

Alternatively, every day or so after running PerfParse you can enter:

echo -n > serviceperf.log

This truncates the log file to zero length.  This will unfortunately 
loose a few lines of data.  If you can live with this then you never 
have to effect Nagios.

Regards,

Ben.

PS, Garry, this might be a good addition to the FAQ :)


cgo...@tc... wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I use your plugin which is very helpfull for collating performance data.
> I have just one question about it :
> It seems that when I use the --delete option, it restart the nagios
> process.
> Does it change the avaibility stats with this nagios downtime (today it
> restart 4 times per hours - every 15 minutes in my crontab) ?
> So, is there a way to use it without restarting the nagios process.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Christophe GOGUYER DESSAGNES
> IT Architect
> Touring Club Suisse
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