are you sure your checks will return performance data along with check outputs?
BR On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Craig Stewart <craig.stew...@corp.xplornet.com> wrote: > Good day all! > > It's me again. Before I get too detailed, I'd just like a sanity check > on what is supposed to happen. Let's say we have a nagios.cfg series of > entries like this: > > > host_perfdata_file=/tmp/host.perfdata > host_perfdata_template=$HOSTNAME$\t$HOSTSTATEID$\t$HOSTOUTPUT$\t$HOSTOUTPUT$ > service_perfdata_file=/tmp/service.perfdata > service_perfdata_template=$HOSTNAME$\t$SERVICEDESC$\t$SERVICESTATE$\t'$SERVICEOUTPUT$' > host_perfdata_file_mode=a > service_perfdata_file_mode=a > > If I understand this correctly, the Nagios process opens the two files > and starts appending the information in the format supplied above, correct? > > I've checked, and Nagios is opening the files. > > [root@g-caon-spdtst-tor01 tmp]# lsof | grep perfdata > nagios 6941 nagios 6w REG 8,3 0 1983833 /tmp/host.perfdata > nagios 6941 nagios 7w REG 8,3 0 1983834 /tmp/service.perfdata > [root@g-caon-spdtst-tor01 tmp]# ps awx | grep nagios > 6941 ? Ssl 0:12 /usr/sbin/nagios -d /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg > [root@g-caon-spdtst-tor01 tmp]# ls -l *.perfdata > -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 0 2011-06-13 18:01 host.perfdata > -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 0 2011-06-13 18:01 service.perfdata > [root@g-caon-spdtst-tor01 tmp]# > > If I understand all of the above, this file should be collecting the > information dumped to it, and getting larger and larger and larger.... > > As it stands, nothing is going into the files. > > Thoughts? I'm sure it's something simple and I'm overlooking it. > > System specs: > Nagios Core 3.2.0 > Copyright (c) 2009 Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors > Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad > Last Modified: 08-12-2009 > License: GPL > [root@g-caon-spdtst-tor01 tmp]# uname -a > Linux g-caon-spdtst-tor01 2.6.27.29-170.2.79.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Aug > 14 20:49:37 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Cheers! > > Craig > > -- > Craig Stewart > Systems Integration Analyst > craig.stew...@corp.xplornet.com > Xplornet - Broadband, Everywhere > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content > authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image > Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null