Pub/Sub Queue Poller?

jscheitel

I have publish/subscribe message system using RabbitMQ as the message broker. Each message includes hostname, timestamp, and a latency reading (ms). 

I have the ability to receive these messages and process them via C#, powershell, whatever... also could write them to a database/table.

My question is if anyone can think of a way to setup a poller that gets these values for each server but retains the timestamp included in the message?

So messages coming into the queue would be like:

server1, datetime, 17

server2, datetime, 23

server3, datetime, 11

server1, datetime, 19

etc...

The values are already being collected in one place... just need ideas for a way to ingest them in Solarwinds so I can do reporting and monitoring/notification that Solarwinds excels at.

Any ideas welcome... 

Thanks!

jscheitel

Looking at various past threads - I guess one solution for this type of issue would be if there was a generic custom poller API, (non node specific?), or if there was a way to import polling events from database or csv.  As far as I can tell, neither of those options seems to exist at this time.

After digging into this a little I see only two options:

1) Backward engineer what happens in the database when a custom poller polls.  Create the custom poller and assign it to each node, and then disable the poller.  Allow custom functionality to continue to add polls to the system directly via the database.  While this is possible, it would be brittle because it would need to be re-tested with each product update, etc.

2) Create a custom poller that pulls the last read value from each node, and assign it to each node.  Ignore the fact that the values are already being collected in one place now.  This works, but means we have lots of extra round trips to every node happening, for something that we are already collecting.