Re: NASA needs Postgres - Nagios help

On 13 July 2010 21:25, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> 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.
>

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