[nycbug-talk] Statistical Monitoring

[Steven Kreuzer]

On Nov 4, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Matt Juszczak wrote:

>> If you need graphing, look at a "heavy" application like cacti, or  
>> roll your own with rrdtool and whatever scripting language you  
>> prefer.
>
> Cacti is great, but does it allow the polling of information other  
> than via SNMP?
>

yup

http://www.cacti.net/downloads/docs/html/making_scripts_work_with_cacti.html

>
>
>> Keep your nagios configuration simple and clean. They are complex  
>> enough
>> that you don't need to add another layer of complexity on top of  
>> them.
>
> I agree.  The system used for alerts should be completely different  
> than the system used for graphing, especially since you probably  
> want to poll the graphing data more often than you do the alert data.

Steven Kreuzer
http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer