Re: [Perfparse-users] perfparse method 4

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

> Yves wrote:
>> In latest version of the install guide (in perfparse-0.104.3), I read =
"edit
>> misccommands.cfg and comment out the following definitions for host an=
d service
>> performance data".
>
> Ok, I thought that supreme RTFM place is
> http://perfparse.sourceforge.net/docs.php

Well, it's being reorganized.
Today, http://wiki.perfparse.org is a good place to go :)

And because the install guide source is in doc/, that version is often th=
e latest one.
But it happens that we do some modifications in the development version a=
nd put it on
http://perfparse.sourceforge.net/docs.php before the next release.
It's being reorganized...

>
>> If you have perfparse installed in /opt/perfparse (e.g. $USER2 is /opt=
/perfparse),
>> write
>> this for the pipe : "|/opt/perfparse/var/perfdata-service.log".
>
> So it must *not* be the same file as perfdata-service.log in
> nagios_perfparse.cfg?

Yes, it has :)
Same player plays again :)
edit nagios.cfg (and other cfg files for nagios) and in the perfdata comm=
and definition
for services, define a file (let's call it PERFDATA here) where to write =
the perfdata.

If you run nagios without perfparsed, nagios should create a file called =
PERFDATA. And
that file is a plain text file.

Now, remove that file. And in the perfparse.cfg config, set Service_Log a=
s "|PERFDATA".
Don't create that file yourself.
Then run perfparsed : it will create that file as a FIFO (eg: a named pip=
e). Run nagios
and nagios will output the data in the fifo.

Note :
If you run nagios and perfparsed just after, nagios will not output data =
in the second
it was launched, and it lets time to perfparsed to create the pipe.
If perfparsed runs and the file is not a pipe, it will not run (read the =
logs)

I also noticed that if your command *appends* data to the pipe, it does n=
ot work for me.
WRONG : echo data >> pipe
OK    : echo data > pipe

Other questions ? :)

Yves

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