arbitrary message plugin

[bradlang]

Hi, my company has an internal tool in .NET with which we can push arbitrary strings as messages with a simple script to our monitoring website from any of our servers.

such as "http://status.example.com/UpdatePush.as ... =#{message}" Given that a task called #{service} was already created on the server end.

We've since switched much of our monitoring over to cacti such as RAM, CPU, disk, and use thold and monitor, but I haven't been able to find a plugin that we could use to send custom messages and store them in cacti / notify if the message go red or just change color.

Is there a cacti plugin that can do this? It doesn't need to use query strings like ours does, but that would be ideal.

[bradlang]

Example use:

http://status.example.com/UpdatePush.as ... xample.com Daily Backups -> backupServer1&status=GREEN&statusMessage=Backed up on 2012-05-15 04:00 and took 1 hour 6 minutes

(green) server12.example.com Daily Backups -> backupServer1 Backed up on 2012-05-15 04:00 and took 1 hour 6 minutes


http://status.example.com/UpdatePush.as ... xample.com Daily Backups -> backupServer1&status=RED&statusMessage=<error dump>

(red) server12.example.com Daily Backups -> backupServer1 <error dump>

[bradlang]

is this the correct subforum for this?

[gandalf]

Yes, it is. But you will have to do this plugin on your own.
R.