Perl Scripts in nagios

waelkd · 06-06-2012, 05:28 AM

Hye,

I am completely new to this, i wish to write some perl scripts. i.e script to fetch data between two dates.
another script to show when all CPU's are working above 80%

and 3rd script informing me when a harddisk switched to idle mode.

whats the 1st steps i should take into consideration look into? your help guys is mostly appreciated.

Thanks

chrism01 · 06-06-2012, 07:43 PM

You do realize Nagios comes with a load of pre-written scripts (in my case /usr/local/nagios/libexec dir) official plugins page http://nagiosplugins.org/man and more are avail from http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins.

Specifically for your qns:

1. cpu; given how much cpu percentages rapidly vary over very short times, you would be flooded with alerts.
I recommend check_load instead

2. I didn't know disks had an idle mode ..

Official Plugins HOWTO guide http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/de...uidelines.html