Re: [Nagios-users] checking a counter on a website

[Frank, Jason]

This actually hits on what I consider to be one of Nagios'  (few) weaknesses.  A lot of time, when I do my checks, I'm not nearly as interested in the value of a check as in the change in the value since the last check.  This is a good example.  Another item I monitor is changes in the SNMP Interface error counters.  For example, if I get more than 5 errors/second, I need to send out an alert.  Finally, I have the same issue monitoring SNMP Interface statuses.  But, Nagios has no feature to remember data between invocations of the checks.  So, I end up storing this data in temporary files. If there was a facility to provide some information back to Nagios, and retrieve it on the next one, that would be wonderful.   Jason   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Cruse Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 1:52 PM To: 'Maxwell,Brady'; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] checking a counter on a website I would just write a quick script that grabs the value on the counter, then grabs the value again and subtracts the first from the second.  Publish that value out via SNMP and then just use check_snmp to verify that the value is >=1.  People with more programming skills than I would probably just write one plugin to do it all.   Andrew   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maxwell,Brady Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:45 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] checking a counter on a website   Anyone ever tried to check a websites hit counter and return a warning if the hit counter has not incremented since the previous check?     Brady Maxwell Systems Engineer Online Computer Library Center, Inc. 614.764.6133 | [EMAIL PROTECTED]   This message (including any attachments) may contain confidential or otherwise privileged information and is intended only for the individual(s) to which it is addressed. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secured or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message or that arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version from the sender. SOURCECORP, Incorporated www.srcp.com

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