[Perfparse-users] Why is it so convoluted?

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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">My question is to why perfparse is so convoluted?&nbsp; Here is the current flow of events, I may not have it configured right but here it is:</FONT></P>

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<LI>First you have to have perfparse daemon started to get any performance data into the database.&nbsp; I've seen the whole thing it crash, and the error was due to the database not responding properly.&nbsp; In order to get this going again, you have to first delete the pipe, then kill all perfparse_nagios_pipe_command processes that may be hanging around. Then restart perfparsed.</LI>

<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Nagios fires off a separate process for perfparse_nagios_pipe_command.pl which writes to a pipe</FONT></LI>

<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Perfparsed then reads the pipe and inserts the values into the database.</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Why not cut a few of the steps out, get rid of the daemon, and have Nagios execute a command like this:</FONT>

<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">define command{</FONT>

<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; command_name&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; process-service-perfdata</FONT>

<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; command_line&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; /usr/bin/perfparse-db &quot;$TIMET$&quot; &quot;$HOSTNAME$&quot; &quot;$SERVICEDESC$&quot; &quot;$OUTPUT$&quot;&quot;$SERVICESTATE$&quot; &quot;$PERFDATA$&quot;</FONT></P>

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The program perfparse-db reads the perfparse.cfg file to determine the storage module, database, username, password etc. then connects to the database, and&nbsp; inserts directly the values passed to it into the database.

<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks, </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Bitstream Vera Sans">Richard Masci<BR>
(OSS/I&amp;S/CAS)Network Facing Tools<BR>
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