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APM Nagios Linux/Unix Parser

I'm currently attempting to integrate the output from various Nagios plug-ins (eg, Perl scripts) into APM, and it appears that, in essence, one must modify the default parser script ('ScriptProcessorForNagios') to accomodate the output from each plug-in. In a lengthy meeting with colleagues last week I was advised that, in fact, the 'ScriptProcessorForNagios' parser would probably need to be modified for each and every instance of a Nagios plugin.

Would any of the SolarWinds geeks care to comment on this? If there's a quick and easy way to use the 'ScriptProcessorForNagios' file without needing to extensively modify the output parameters? In particular, it appears to me that the default script accepts 'status' values (eg, 'OK', 'Warning', etc) but does not accept actual datapoints for graphing, and that one would need to specify output parameters differently for each Nagios plug-in.

Any observations, workarounds, etc would be most welcome!

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MarieB

Hi Expat--

I've marked this one for the product manager and development to get your question answered.

Peter.Cooper

Hello ExpatYankee

> SolarWinds geek here <

The ScriptProcessorForNagios perl script that ships with APM does fix the statistic data to 0. After reviewing Nagios 3 output, it does look it's deterministically possible to snag a statistic value. After reviewing the perl script, it looks like it's possible to modify just the singular pre-processor. However, APM is designed so that one component has one statistic data.

Are the majority of the Nagios scripts, that you care about, returning just the one statistic value?

Peter.Cooper

ExpatYankee - please check your new private message on thwack. Cheers!

Edit: my private message bounced. <mail.thwack.com #5.5.0 smtp;550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable>

ExpatYankee

Hi Peter:

Thanks for your reply; could you send it to my e-mail at:

e.w.jacobson@dundee.ac.uk

ExpatYankee

Hi Peter:

The majority of our scripts monitor multiple values; ie, 'disk space used in bytes', 'disk space used in percent', 'remaining percent disk available' (as a 'for instance'). We could split these into discrete component monitors if necessary--the real trick for us is to get the Nagios statistical output into APM, whether in one monitor or several.