We have various systems that keep track of employee data: when an employee was last paid, hours of sick/vacation leave accrued, employee's laptop's last IP address (from DHCP server), last time employee's laptop was backed up (from backup server), whether employee is on-lave/traveling, whether the employee has been receiving email (vs employee's mailbox being full, account not setup properly, etc), etc.
I realized we could use nagios' "passive service checks" to have the various systems upload employee data to our nagios server, but was wondering if this was fitting a round peg into a square hole. Is nagios a good tool for monitoring things that aren't machines? If not, what would be a good tool? One concern: nagios tends to treat data as almost "binary"-- either something is good (green) or bad (red) [yes, yellow + "unknown" also exist, but it's still almost binary]. In some cases, we're just looking to create an "employee status report" page that has text data on the employee (pushed from various servers), without necessarily categorizing the data as "good" or "bad". -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ 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
