Sun, 03 Jun 2007
The Nagios Tag Cloud
We use the Nagios monitoring system
at work (in fact we use four installs of it for physically isolated
networks) and while it's damn useful (and service checks are easy to
create or extend) it's a little lacking in higher level trending and
visualisation tools. Well, at least the very old version we run suffers
from this.
Thankfully I work for a company that invests time in its core tools. Over the last couple of hackdays I've written two small scripts for parsing Nagios logfiles and presenting the information in a different, slightly more grouped way. The first of these is the Nagios TagCloud - which has a very descriptive name :)
When invoked (I typically use nagiosclouds.pl /log/files/*.log >
/webdir/nagios_tagcloud.html from a cronjob) it'll run through the log
files and produce a HTML page containing 3 tag clouds, one for host
outages, one for service warnings and one for service criticals. Tag clouds
don't suit everyones work style but I came away from running ours with a
couple of action points so I think they're useful enough to glance at once
a month.
I should note the perl module that generates the tag cloud is Leon Brocards HTML::TagCloud and the CSS was graciously given to me by Alex Monney after he burned his eyes looking at my first version.
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