[Perfparse-users] Re: PerfParse Docu

[Ben C. <bcl...@pe...>]

Hi Jessica,

I have cc'd this reply to mailing list perfparse-users, where there is a 
lot of good quality information and some people who probably know more 
than me about using PerfParse in anger :)

Thanks for pointing out the problems with the documentation.  It's on my 
TODO list to draw all the docs together.

You problems do seem to be database related.  Have a look at this topics 
in our FAQ:

http://wiki.perfparse.org/tiki-view_faq.php?faqId=5#q15

The Icon problem.  There is some information in the installation guide 
from Garry about linking Nagios directly to PerfParse.  Is this what you 
are looking for?  There are no 'official' PerfParse icons I know about yet.

If you have any more problems, please contact my self or the mailing list.

Kind regards,

Ben.


Jessica Holle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I hope you can help me a little bit. After descided to use nagiostat
> to show the graphs of Nagios and I've written the very very big
> configuration file and it failed, I wanted to show the graphs with
> PerfParse
> 
> I'm looking on the following site :
> http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Perfparse-users.30.0.html?
> &tx_maillisttofaq_pi1[mode]=1&tx_maillisttofaq_pi1[showUid]=2215
> 
> And you comment on this documentation:
> http://wiki.perfparse.org/tiki-index.php?page=BuildingMethod4Example
> 
> This is much more better to understand as the "big" documentation on
> www.perfparse.org but I don't understand some things.
> 
> 
> "Then create a Nagios command to run perfparse-log2mysql every time
> a log is
> generated."
> 
> I don't know how this command should look like.
> 
>  "# vi /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
> # Purge PerfParse DB daily at 3 AM.
> 0 1 * * * /opt/nagios/bin/perfparse-db-purge
> 
> # ps -ef | grep cron
> root <number> 1 0 Jan 26 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
> # kill -HUP <number> "
> 
> And this I don't understand too... I've no path like this and
> nothing it looks like.
> 
> I've added the things like in this documentation an when I click on
> the perfparse logo in Nagios I get this:
> 
> An error occured with the SQL:
>   "Could not connect to MySQL using:  Database  = 'perfparse',  Host
> = '127.0.0.1',  Username =  'nagios', Password  = ''"
> Failure Message:
>   "Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database 'perfparse'"
> 
> I think this is a right problem on the MySQL database, but I don't
> know why.
> 
> Another question ist, how get I the little icons next to the
> services in Nagios? This icons, when I click on them, that I see the
> graph für this service??? Is it with a serviceextinfo.cfg? How looks
> then the entry for the notes url?
> 
> I hope you know what I mean and you will help me...
> 
> Yours truely
> 
> Jessica Holle
> 
> 
> 
>