[Nagiosplug-devel] Kickoff for 1.5

[Harper Mann]

Hi Everyone,

There are several items in an SNMP plugin discussion we're interested in and
are working on.  What I can remember off the top of my head is:

1) How to manage and alarm on counter data like interface traffic, etc.  We
use check_rrd, which was mentioned earlier in this thread, and perhaps
that's sufficient since we customarily store and graph, but standardizing
this would be good.  We're not sure RRDTool will scale to sufficient size
installations.

2) We've had a request to collect 3-4 SNMP values (in, out, errors) from
more than 10,000 interfaces every 15 minutes so we're looking into how to
scale to such a large installation.  Aside from how to get plugins to keep
up with collecting, what's the best way to store so much performance data?  

3) Fix the performance data so it conforms to the project standards and
manages OIDs and Symbolic names well for multiple requests.

This should be good!

Regards,

- Harper

Harper Mann
Groundwork Open Source Solutions
510-599-2075 (cell)
http://itgroundwork.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagiosplug-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagiosplug-
> devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Patrick Proy
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 3:49 PM
> To: 'NagiosPlug Devel'
> Subject: RE: [Nagiosplug-devel] Kickoff for 1.5
> 
>  Hi,
> 
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : nagiosplug-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> > [mailto:nagiosplug-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] De la part de
> > sean finney Objet : Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] Kickoff for 1.5
> >
> [...]
> >
> > yeah, i wasn't planning on using the actual mibs, since there isn't a
> > point and like you said it requires more stuff to be around.  below is
> > a basic rundown of what you can monitor.
> > things marked with a '+'
> > are stand-alone entries.  things marked with a '*' are indexed
> > entries.
> >
> > ucd/net mib:
> >
> > * processes (by name, like "httpd")
> >   - built in minimum / maximum threshold (server side configured)
> >   - total count
> > + virtual memory
> >   - total / used / free
> > * disks (not automatically exported, configured server side)
> >   - total / used / free
> >   - built in minimum free space threshold (server side configured)
> > + load average
> >   - 1, 5, 10 minute averages
> >   - built in maximum threshold (server side configured)
> > + cpu usage
> >  - user, system, nice
> >
> [....]
> 
> I wrote some perl plugins for (nearly) all this, but i mainly use MIB II
> for
> compatibility and so nothing is configured server side.
> I also tried to export data to performance data when it was possible.
> 
> When I asked a few months ago, nobody seemed to be willing to group the
> multiple perl snmp plugins, but it would be a VERY good idea.
> 
> Patrick
> nagios at proy.org
> http://www.manubulon.com/nagios/
> 
> 
> 
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