Re: NASA needs Postgres - Nagios help

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 20:10, Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On 13 July 2010 17:14, Duncavage, Daniel P. (JSC-OD211)
> <daniel(dot)p(dot)duncavage(at)nasa(dot)gov> wrote:
>> We are implementing Nagios on Space Station and want to use PostgreSQL to
>> store the data on orbit and then replicate that db on the ground.  The
>> problem is, most people use MySQL with Nagios.  We need an addon to ingest
>> Nagios data into PostgreSQL.  It looks like the most reasonable
>> implementation is to update the NDOUtils addon to support PostgreSQL.  Does
>> anyone have such an addon, or want to write one?
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm the NASA project manager for the set of computers on Space Station and
>> we plan to deploy this capability this year.  If have to write our own
>> addon, we will, but I'd rather use something already out there.
>
> This looks like it hasn't been worked on in a while, but is this any
> use?: http://nagiosplugins.projects.postgresql.org/

Those are plugins to monitor postgresql using nagios. For that, you
should realy be looking at check_postgres. I think what the OP is
looking for is a way to store Nagios metadata in postgres, which is
something else.

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