[Nagiosplug-devel] munin active check plugins?

[Andreas Ericsson]

VEGH Karoly wrote:
> Hi. 
> 
> I am trying to clean up our Nagios-based monitoring policy.
> 
> I was wondering, that hey, munin is a nice tool to do the graphs,
> really. But it can alarm only through passive checks:
> http://www.linpro.no/projects/munin/munin-doc.html#0_3_5
> 
> My questions is: is it exaggeration to want to keep the monitoring
> policy active-check-only? If not, any chance that in the near future 
> there will be nagiosplugins with active checks for munin? somehow like
> this (munin-node runs on port 4949)
> 

Not very likely, no. The easiest (and best) way to do this would be to 
use Nagios's loadable module support and hack something up to pass the 
perfdata from checks (possibly in a modified way) to munin.

> bss at atsrvlx02-new:~$ telnet atsrvlx03 4949
> Trying 172.21.16.103...
> Connected to atsrvlx03.utalan.at.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> # munin node at atsrvlx03.utalan.at
> list
> df_inode cpu processes iostat memory df exim_mailstats interrupts
> netstat swap exim_mailqueue vmstat load
> memory
> # Unknown command. Try list, nodes, config, fetch, version or quit
> fetch memory
> slab.value 135057408
> swap_cache.value 27516928
> apps.value 730521600
> free.value 238710784
> buffers.value 171941888
> cached.value 1874755584
> swap.value 664526848
> active.value 769347584
> inactive.value 2007728128
> .
> quit
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> bss at atsrvlx02-new:~$ 
> 
> 
> feedback is welcome.
> 
> 
> charlie
> 

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