PerfParse
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(C) 2004 Ben Clewett.
Main contributions from Garry Cook and Yves Mettier.
See AUTHORS for more information.

Licence:	GPL (see COPYING).

This program takes the performance data from Nagios and files it as binary data
inside a Relational Database, currently MySQL. This is completed by a periodic
parse of the log file (serviceperf.log) containing this data, which is produced
by Nagios.

Also provided is a CGI program used for generating '.png' graphs of this data,
which may be used in web sites.

    NOTE: Please use InnoDB tables and MySQL version 4.0.11 upwards. This allows
    transactions so that bad data can be discarded, as well as referential
    integrity. Therefore the program can always be safely killed.

Like all DBMS's, MySQL likes a lot of memory, mainly for disk-caching. So does
Nagios. If serious reporting is to be completed, we advise the use of two
computers.

Multiple Nagios machines can be used to populate the same database, they will
not conflict. But ensure service/host name combinations are different on each
installation.

Please address support to the mailing list perfparse-users@sourceforge.net,
which can be joined through the project web site.


IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT
Please note, this product is still in development.  When upgrading version,
there may be some small adjustments needed.  Please review the UPGRADE document
in doc/ for details on upgrade information. 

perfparse@clewett.org.uk
http://perfparse.sourceforge.net/

