I installed the plugin.  I used the --defaults directive to the
rrd_hwreapply command to introduce the HW stuff into an rrd.

Install seems successful, but I have no graph in the alerts tab for the
HW alert created as per the Install document.  I have the following in
messages:

Jun  6 11:48:00 munchies nfsen[24391]: Loading plugin 'holtwinter':
Success
Jun  6 11:48:00 munchies nfsen[24391]: ** Important **: Plugin
'holtwinter' is a legacy plugin.
Jun  6 11:48:00 munchies nfsen[24391]: Initializing plugin 'holtwinter':
Success
Jun  6 11:48:00 munchies nfsen[24391]: plugin 'holtwinter': Profile
plugin: 0, Alert condition plugin: 1, Alert action plugin: 0
Jun  6 11:48:00 munchies nfsen[24391]: Plugin: 'holtwinter' has
configured  profiles, but no 'run' function!
Jun  6 11:48:00 munchies nfsen[24391]: Plugins for Alert conditions:
holtwinter

Not sure if the no 'run' function is really a problem?  Should the
alerts infos graph be populated ongoing or only after an alert has been
triggered?

Any recommendation to use other values than --defaults when running
rrd_hwreapply?

Thanks,
Robin


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Werner
Schram
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:21 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Nfsen-discuss] Holtwinter alert plugin

Hello,

I created a proof of concept alerting plugin to generate alerts based on

Holt Winter information. My intention is creating a plugin that gives 
the same information as the Holt Winter NfSen extension by Gabor Kiss, 
but without patching NfSen. It does require patching the RRD files with 
Holt Winter RRAs, which could also be overcome by manually calculating 
the Holt Winter information from the nfcapd files. But the Holt Winter 
RRAs shouldn't pose a problem, and I didn't call a proof of concept for 
nothing :).

The current NfSen plugin interface doesn't give an option for passing 
information from the plugin to NfSen (it is not possible to influence 
the content of the email sent as a result of the alert). So if you 
configure NfSen to send an e-mail when Holt Winter finds aberrant 
behavior, the e-mail will only tell that there is aberrant behavior, it 
will not tell in which profile, source and type of graph (flows, packets

or bytes) it is found. To work arround this problem it sends debug 
information to the syslog, which looks like this:

May 31 15:45:21 [nfsen] holtwinter: found abberant behavior in rrd: 
/var/lib/nfsen/profiles/live/Trillian.rrd in RRA flows_icmp

The file includes a README file with installation instruction. I created

the plugin using nfsen-snapshot-20070312.

All comments or suggestions are welcome!

Werner

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