------------------------------------------------- From: "Michael Friedrich" <michael.friedr...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 5:40 PM To: <icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [icinga-users] Nagios Plugin for Cacti and Icinga
> On 28.10.2013 18:56, v g wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> I have a few questions about Icinga and Cacti integration: >> - it seem Nagios Plugin for Cacti (NPC) would do nicely for my need, but >> no >> instruction how to set it up with Icinga can be found on the net. Anyone >> on >> this has experience with that? > looking at their docs, it's pretty clear: > https://trac.assembla.com/npc/wiki/QuickStartGuide > > - have icinga core and idoutils writing to a mysql database > - set the "nagios url" to the icinga classic ui location (as far as i > understand, they do parse the html output for maps and reporting) > - set the external command pipe path to the icinga core one did that - "Nagios Command File Path" - /var/spool/icinga/cmd/icinga.cmd "Nagios URL" - http://192.168.1.250/icinga/ Getting "Nagios Status" Off > > but tbh i've never tried that. some years ago, i've modified a patch for > the cacti threshold plugin in order to trigger alerts and send them as > passive check result to icinga, but that didn't work out that well. > > it also seems that the cacti ecosystem is unwilling create a bridge to > the nagios/icinga ecosystem, so everyone builds their own hacks and > solutions between those too. Really unfortunate for both cacti and nagios/icinga - I know people opting out for zabbix and such - I thinking about that too. > >> - Cacti seems to be able to graph external rrds, but again: no practical >> examples can be found - maybe someone dealt with it before? > > depends what you mean with the term "able to graph external rrds". if > it's just for the presentation layer on the webinterface - it may read > any rrd file, but you'll of course need to apply the data sources into > your current graph views and templates. for details, head to the cacti > docs or their mailinglists. Thanks, Michael > > -- > DI (FH) Michael Friedrich > > mail: michael.friedr...@gmail.com > twitter: https://twitter.com/dnsmichi > jabber: dnsmi...@jabber.ccc.de > irc: irc.freenode.net/icinga dnsmichi > > icinga open source monitoring > position: lead core developer > url: https://www.icinga.org > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform > that > developers love is also attractive to malware creators. Download this > white > paper to learn more about secure code signing practices that can help keep > Android apps secure. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=65839951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > icinga-users mailing list > icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icinga-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform that developers love is also attractive to malware creators. Download this white paper to learn more about secure code signing practices that can help keep Android apps secure. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=65839951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ icinga-users mailing list icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icinga-users
