[Perfparse-users] Newbie's question

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Hi List!

Now I use Nagios 1.2 on Debian Woody 3.1 and Nagios-plugins 1.4.0-alpha3. I
read about some "Chart-tool" and I would like to implement PerfPrase, after
migrating to Nagios 2.0.


Before my work I have some unanswered questions (I read through Installation
guide, digging in FAQs, etc.):

1. I like "Method 4 : Ask Nagios to write into a pipe". Is it compatible
with Nagios 2.0?

2. There is a "perfparse_nagios_pipe_command.pl" in Chapter 5| Method 4 of
the Installation Guide. Because I'm not a programmer it would be very good
for me, if I'll be able to download this script. An example is OK, maybe I
can modify it, or revrite in a shell script (I know it better then Perl).
How can I get this script?

3. In Chapter 4 there is: "Please use InnoDB tables ...". What does InnoDB
mean? Hoiw can I configure MySQL to satisfy this requirement?

4. In Chapter 4 there is: "Create a database ... and a user in that
database. NEXT, use the mysql_create script in the contrib directory to
create the necessary tables within the database. Eg, with user 'bob' and
database 'nagios': $ cat mysql_create.sql | mysql -u bob -p -D nagios"

This example do exactly what I have to do, or according to the text before I
run this example I have to create a database and a user in that database? If
this latter case is true how can I do this?

5. Is PerfParse capable to graph Check performance data, or just the Plugin
performance data?

6. How PerfParse graph "data", if there is no data?

7. How Perfparse handle plugin timeouts?

Sorry, if my questions was silly, but I'm not a programmer and not a
Database administrator.

Thank you very much!

I Whish Everybody Merry Christmas!

Tamas!