RE: [Perfparse-users] new to perfmon

[Cook, G. <GW...@ma...>]

per...@li... wrote:
> Hello
> I'm having a small problem with perfmon
> I've followed the instructions on
> http://perfparse.sourceforge.net/docs.php
> to the letter...
>=20
> I've set up the crontab job as:
> # Run PerfParse every 15 minutes to update Nagios graphs.
> 15 * * * * /usr/local/nagios/bin/perfparse.sh

So far, so good.


> but all I get is the following and no data is building upp in the DB.
> why ? what ? why????=20
>=20
> [nagios@black148 nagios]$ /usr/local/nagios/bin/perfparse.sh
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/perfparse:
> Please use --delete-service-log instead of --delete

I think there is still an error (bug) in the perfparse.sh file.
Hopefully this will be fixed in the next version (Ben?). Please edit
perfparse.sh and change --delete to --delete-service-log. Alternatively,
you could just remove the '--delete' option altogether, and PerfParse
should use what you've set in perfparse.cfg.


> Usage:
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/perfparse [[-U | --user] user] [[-P |
> --password] password]
>         [[-D | --database] database] [-H database_host]
>         [[-c | --config-file] config_file_name] [-n no_of_lines] [-s]
>         [-l logfile] [-n no_of_lines] [-s]
>         [--serviceperf-log logfile] [--delete-service-log]
>         [--host-log logfile] [--delete-host-log]
>         [-r | --report] [--no-raw] [--del-old n]
>         [-v | --version] [-h | --help]
>=20
>         -U -P -D -H   Database Parameters.
>         -l                     Short option for --serviceperf-log
>         --serviceperf-log      Location of the serviceperf.log file.
>         --host-log             Location of the serviceperf.log file.
>         --delete-service-log   Truncate log file to zero
> length on exit.
>         --delete-host-log      Truncate log file to zero
> length on exit.
>                       ** Need the location of nagios.lock in
> the config
> file **
>         -n            Parse only n lines, then stop.
>         --no-raw      Do not log the raw data.  Not used by perfparse.
>                       This containes the original message from plugin.
>         --del-old n   Delete data from database more than n days old.
>         -s            Silent.  Do not display progress.
>         -r --report   Displays a report of activity on exit.
>=20
>         -v --version  Print version and exit.
>         -h --help     Print this help exit.
>=20
> Using default configuration file
> '//usr/local/nagios/etc/perfparse.cfg'
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/perfparse --show_config  Show the configuration

Garry W. Cook, CCNA
Network Infrastructure Manager
MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
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