Re: [Nagios-users] RE: Reporting and misc rave.

2006-02-24 Thread Ton Voon
On 6 Feb 2006, at 20:48, Steve Shipway wrote: Ton Voon wrote: On 3 Feb 2006, at 19:24, Tedman Eng wrote Read/Write access to cmd.cgi can already be disabled using .htaccess I tried that (setting a group in .htaccess and only certain users into that group), and it worked, but I didn't like t

RE: [Nagios-users] RE: Reporting and misc rave.

2006-02-06 Thread Steve Shipway
Ton Voon wrote: > On 3 Feb 2006, at 19:24, Tedman Eng wrote > > Read/Write access to cmd.cgi can already be disabled using .htaccess > > I tried that (setting a group in .htaccess and only certain > users into that group), and it worked, but I didn't like the > user experience This is the same

RE: [Nagios-users] RE: Reporting and misc rave.

2006-02-06 Thread Steve Shipway
Stanley Hopcroft wrote: > Mr Shipways approach is too process the Nag logs periodically > with private/in-house (AFAIK) code to extract the entries of > interest and insert them as rows in a table(s). > > (Incidentally, this sounds very enterprising since the > extraction code has to deal with

[Nagios-users] RE: Reporting and misc rave.

2006-02-05 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, Firstly thanks to all that answered either on the list or privately. I will now attempt to emulate a journalling file system by summarising the responses. 1 Having Nagios availability in a DB is a good thing. Doing so reduces the cost of reporting since there is are data representat

Re: [Nagios-users] RE: Reporting and misc rave.

2006-02-04 Thread Ton Voon
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 6:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] RE: Reporting and misc rave. On 3 Feb 2006, at 00:59, Jim Pye wrote: My wishlist for Nagios? 0) Two levels of access - readonly and manage - on a per co

RE: [Nagios-users] RE: Reporting and misc rave.

2006-02-03 Thread Tedman Eng
Read/Write access to cmd.cgi can already be disabled using .htaccess -Original Message- From: Ton Voon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 6:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] RE: Reporting and misc rave

Re: [Nagios-users] RE: Reporting and misc rave.

2006-02-03 Thread Ton Voon
On 3 Feb 2006, at 00:59, Jim Pye wrote:My wishlist for Nagios? 0) Two levels of access - readonly and manage - on a per contact, per service level.  Dont just give 'manage' access to everyone listed as a contact for that service. True. I did work on a customers site where the management wanted acce

RE: [Nagios-users] RE: Reporting and misc rave.

2006-02-02 Thread Jim Pye
All, I have only been using Nagios for a week or two. Have a system configured to monitor a five server network. I therefore have not used all the features comprehensively but I do see some of the points Steve mentions below as things I see missing - see my notes. Note I am using v2.0rc2. On Fri

Re: [Nagios-users] RE: Reporting and misc rave.

2006-02-02 Thread John P. Rouillard
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stanley.Hopcroft writes: >I am writing with mainly a rant about Graphing and Reporting. > > OT -> on topic in this case IMHO 8-). >1 About graphing with Nagios >Why would one bother when > 1.1 Cacti does such a good job Well cacti does a good job but I hate the

RE: [Nagios-users] RE: Reporting and misc rave.

2006-02-02 Thread Steve Shipway
> Main problem: Both systems have their own host/service > configuration systems, so you'll end up duplicating all the > data entry. We get around this with a home-grown configuration system, which outputs not just the Nagios configuration files, but also files for MRTG, updates a mysql database

RE: [Nagios-users] RE: Reporting and misc rave.

2006-02-02 Thread Steve Shipway
> I am writing with mainly a rant about Graphing and Reporting. Oh yes, I have problems with these, also. Please feel free to rant away at length. > 1 About graphing with Nagios > Why would one bother when > 1.1 Cacti does such a good job > 1.2 Nagios could check the Cacti RRDs with either

RE: [Nagios-users] RE: Reporting and misc rave.

2006-02-02 Thread Tedman Eng
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 1 About graphing with Nagios > > Why would one bother when > > 1.1 Cacti does such a good job > > 1.2 Nagios could check the Cacti RRDs with either > check_rrd, or by an > outboard (Cron scheduled) RRD poller that submits passive service > check results >

[Nagios-users] RE: Reporting and misc rave.

2006-02-02 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I am writing with mainly a rant about Graphing and Reporting. 1 About graphing with Nagios Why would one bother when 1.1 Cacti does such a good job 1.2 Nagios could check the Cacti RRDs with either check_rrd, or by an outboard (Cron scheduled) RRD poller that submits pass