[Perfparse-users] Nagios configuration issues, please assist :)

[Ethan R. <eth...@fg...>]

Hi all,

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I've setup Perfparse successfully before, however I'm running into a few
issues now on my recent installation and hoping someone might have some
pointers.  Sadly, it seems like the Perfparse wiki is no more and the
official documentation hasn't been updated in quite awhile.

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Some specs:

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Server OS - Ubuntu Server 7.04

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Nagios Version - 3.0b

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Nagios Install Path - /usr/local/nagios/

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Here's where I'm at, I've compiled perfparse-0.106.1 and *seem* to have
it successfully installed.  I've added a link to it in my side.html and
can access the perfparse CGI ok, but have a couple remaining issues:

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1.        None of the perfparse images will load correctly, going by the
instructions I've tried multiple variations on configuring with the
"--with-http_image_path=3D/usr/local/nagios/images" flag, but none of =
them
seem to work properly.  Clearly Nagios doesn't have a, "nagios/images"
directory by default, so not really sure why they recommend this
particular path.  At any rate, on my latest installation it seems to
have placed all of the Nagios images in,
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Things I've tried:
- Configuring using a different, explicit path in the flag such as,
"--with-http_image_path=3D/usr/local/nagios/shared/images"
- Creating /nagios/images, giving the nagios user & group control over
this directory and copying all of the perfparse graphics into this, then
restarting nagios & Apache



2.       I've setup Perfparse to use the pipe to mysql method, or at
least I thought I had, sadly I can only seem to get perfparse to pickup
information when running the "./perfparse-log2mysql -r" command from
/usr/local/nagios/bin.  According to the installation documentation,
there doesn't appear to be any other steps I need to take or cron tabs
setup in order for Nagios to be picking up the data from the logs, there
seems to be something missing here in the documentation regarding this
or maybe I've just forgotten.





3.       When viewing the raw plugin data, the Plugin Output column only
seems to be displaying, "$."  I seem to remember running into this one
before but for the life of me cannot recall the fix.



4.       In the View/Edit Host Groups page, there is a, "/a>" in the
"Delete" column, rather than an option to delete the host groups.  This
seems like a simple bug where someone missed closing out a link but
since it seems to be generated HTML I'm not sure how I can correct this
aside from modifying the source and recompiling.

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Aside from these issues, Nagios seems to be starting just fine as does
Perfparse, nagios is creating perfdata logs ok and perfparse seem to be
generating its respective log files.  Furthermore, running
perfparse-log2mysql manually seems to be working just fine and inserting
data into the DB (aside from the metrics which is likely related to the
plugin output issue).  I can provide my configuration files as needed,
but if anyone has any suggestions as to some steps I might be able to
take to fix some of these issues I would be most appreciative.

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Cheers,

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Ethan Russell // IT Administrator
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