Hello

I am having some problems to generate rrd files automatically.
I've installed nagios 3.2.1 together with nagiosgraph 1.4.2. When i try to generate graph from the webinterface, the rrd directory doesn't get populated. However, when i run the perf script 'insert.pl' from the linux console as follows ( perl /usr/local/lib/insert.pl) the rrd directory is populated and i can view the graphs.

Anyone could please help?
I want to generate rrd files automatically.

Regards

Check the permissions on the directory, can the webserver user write to there?

I've created the rrd directory as follows
mkdir rrd
chown nagios.nagios rrd
chmod 777 rrd

I've not used Nagiosgraph yet.

However, when using an earlier graphing plugin on an earlier version of Nagios the RRD files had to be manually created with rrdtool before the graphing plugin would start writing Nagios checks into them. I'm wondering if that isn't also the case for Nagiosgraph?

No Idea
I've installed nagios and nagiosgraph for the first time and am really stuck..for weeks am struggling..
Any idea how to proceed?

Hi MensaWater.

This is not the case with nagiosgraph. The rrd files are generated when the perl script is run manually for the first time, however they are not updated when subsequent data are generated,

Any clue how to solve this issue?

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what is in the nagiosgraph log file?

first check the nagios configuration. are you using batch mode or immediate mode to initiate nagiosgraph data processing? ensure that your nagios configuration matches what is described in the 'Configuring Data Processing' section of INSTALL. batch mode is usually the better choice.

then turn up the log level for data processing by setting debug_insert to 5 in nagiosgraph.conf. look at the contents of the nagiosgraph log file to see what is happening. you should see nagiosgraph being invoked periodically to process the nagios perfdata.

then look for a specific service in the log file. ensure that data are being processed properly. the log file should indicate any problems that prevent data processing.

be sure to turn the log level back to 3 or less after you find the problem.

Hi Mathew

please find below the contents of the log file.
I am using batch mode to initiate data processing.

Tue Jun 15 11:07:32 2010 insert.pl debug insert.pl processing started
Tue Jun 15 11:07:32 2010 insert.pl debug getrules(/etc/nagiosgraph/map)
Tue Jun 15 11:07:32 2010 insert.pl debug inputdata()
Tue Jun 15 11:07:32 2010 insert.pl debug insert.pl processing complete
Tue Jun 15 11:08:02 2010 insert.pl debug insert.pl processing started
Tue Jun 15 11:08:02 2010 insert.pl debug getrules(/etc/nagiosgraph/map)
Tue Jun 15 11:08:02 2010 insert.pl debug inputdata()
Tue Jun 15 11:08:02 2010 insert.pl debug insert.pl processing complete
Tue Jun 15 11:08:32 2010 insert.pl debug insert.pl processing started
Tue Jun 15 11:08:32 2010 insert.pl debug getrules(/etc/nagiosgraph/map)
Tue Jun 15 11:08:32 2010 insert.pl debug inputdata()
Tue Jun 15 11:08:32 2010 insert.pl debug insert.pl processing complete
Tue Jun 15 11:08:45 2010 show.cgi debug getdebug(show, localhost, Current Load)
Tue Jun 15 11:08:45 2010 show.cgi debug getdebug found debug_show
Tue Jun 15 11:08:45 2010 show.cgi critical No data in rrd directory /var/nagios/
rrd


any idea how to debug?

What are your permissions on /var and /var/nagios?

The permissions for var and var/nagios are

drwxrwxrwx 16 root root 416 Jun 15 14:42 var

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 104 Jun 15 14:58 nagios

regards

Try chowning -R /var/nagios to nagios:nagios and restart all the daemons related to rrd generation. It's also possible that they're writing their data to different locations and you need to point both to the same location.

Hello ,

I've changed the access rights on var/nagios as follows

drwxr-xr-x 3 nagios nagios 104 Jun 15 14:58 nagios

still not working.

it looks like there is no pattern in the map file that matches your plugin output. /etc/nagiosgraph/map contains patterns that match plugin output/perfdata and associated rules for putting the results into RRD files.

please run one of your plugins directly then post the output. from that we can create a pattern for the output and/or performance data.

HI,

insert this lines into nagios.cfg

#-nagiosgraph
process_performance_data=1
service_perfdata_file=/tmp/perfdata.log
service_perfdata_file_template=$LASTSERVICECHECK$||$HOSTNAME$||$SERVICEDESC$||$SERVICEOUT$
service_perfdata_file_mode=a
service_perfdata_file_processing_interval=30
service_perfdata_file_processing_command=process-service-perfdata-for-nagiosgraph

Hi all,
Plese could someone help me?
I need to install nagiosgraph, but I cant do this, I am trying this for about 1 month. Actually I am trying to do the libary works, rrdtool.

It is installed when i put on my server: rrdtool -v I can see it.

root@nagios:/opt# rrdtool -v
RRDtool 1.4.8 Copyright 1997-2013 by Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>
Compiled Jun 20 2014 10:05:43

Usage: rrdtool [options] command command_options
Valid commands: create, update, updatev, graph, graphv, dump, restore,
last, lastupdate, first, info, fetch, tune,
resize, xport, flushcached

RRDtool is distributed under the Terms of the GNU General
Public License Version 2. (www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)

For more information read the RRD manpages

But I dont know to do it work. Look:

root@nagios:/opt# rrdtool create temperature.rrd --step 300 \
> DS:temp:GAUGE:600:-273:5000 \
> RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:1200 \
> RRA:MIN:0.5:12:2400 \
> RRA:MAX:0.5:12:2400 \
> RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:12:2400
Bus Error (core dumped)

I dont know now what to do. Some idea?
I am actually workink on a Solaris 11 on a Sun SPARC T3.

Thanks