Nagios and thold

[BrettS]

divagater, Thold and nagios is key to integrating cacti and nagios, I think.

Ive been working on integrating at that point and should now have some further info by the end of the day. What Im doing is using a log scraper (swatch, logsuerfer SEC) to watch for thold log messages and then pass them over to nagios via passive checks. What would be great is if thold or your nagios plugin to have some form of macro/template so as to correctly format the log messages as well as to provide a destination item to the thold setup pages so we could drop the thold formatted message strait into the nagios pipe, circumventing the need for a log scraper, thus reducing the load on the box. Additionaly as part of your plugin the ability to tag certain graph entries along the lines of "Add this to the nagios alerts for this host" type of thing.
Another one, you are probably looking into this, but its worth checking anyway, do you or will you be linking the "nagios extra info for this check" back to the cacti graphs?

thanks

Brett Stevens

[divagater]

Hi Brett. I just released an apha version of NPC (in another thread). I think the very next step is to integrate with Thold. I like the suggestions you have and would be interested in discussing with you some of your ideas.

I will start working on an initial plan for the idea you posed here.

Cheers,
Billy

[BrettS]

Just downloaded this and will impliment in the test area today. Looks fantastic.

As to the integration at the moment Ive been trialing the thold via log scr aping using sec.pl to do the work. Seems ok though it needs a fair bit of massage to keep it going. I recon that this whould be a fairly easy task to integrate thold and your plugin together. Even a simple query against the database would be far simpler than using a scraper.

Anyway great work and thanks for the reply

Brett Stevens