Re: NASA needs Postgres - Nagios help - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thom Brown
Subject Re: NASA needs Postgres - Nagios help
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Msg-id AANLkTinuGA3FrRvM5ZiMoJ9pQjZ3OhW6sUIhD3GPh-oV@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: NASA needs Postgres - Nagios help  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: NASA needs Postgres - Nagios help  (Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>)
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On 13 July 2010 21:25, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 20:10, Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 13 July 2010 17:14, Duncavage, Daniel P. (JSC-OD211)
>> <daniel.p.duncavage@nasa.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.
>

Ah yes, I see.  The documentation suggests PostgreSQL is supported in
version 1.0 under the "Database Support" section:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xdata-db.html

Is that no longer the case then?  They actually *removed* support? :(

Thom

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