Re: [Perfparse-users] Nagios 1.X and PIPE

[Daniele C. <dan...@ti...>]

 >Ive tried that, however i get an error saying
 >>
 >> "/apps/nagios/var/perfdata-service.log exists and is not a pipe"
 >>
 >> It appears that perfparsed needs to be started prior to nagios in
 >> order to create the pipe, but if perfparsed is stopped nagios just
 >> starts overwriting the pipe with a standard file.
 >>
 >> Im assuming its best to hack up the nagios.sh starts script to make it
 >> start perfparsed before nagios?


Another solution should be this posted in list by Tim:
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You can update the perl script that nagios uses to write the data to
the pipe (in your config this is
/usr/local/nagios/bin/perfparse_nagios_command.pl), so that it will
not write anything if the pipe does not exist. That way, you prohibit
the script from creating it as a regular file if it doesn't exist yet.
I believe this should do the trick.

Tim.

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
my $file = shift @ARGV;
exit(0) unless (-p $file);
open FH, ">$file" or die "'$file' could not be opened for appending\n";
print FH join("\t", @ARGV);
print FH "\n";
close FH;
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A note: use perfparse_nagios_pipe_command.pl instead of
perfparse_nagios_command.pl in your perfparse_nagios_command.pl
definition. Obviously modify perfparse_nagios_pipe_command.pl perl 
script  ;)

Daniele