Using The Naemonstats Utility
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Introduction
A utility called naemonstats is included in the Naemon distribution. It is compiled and installed along with the main Naemon daemon. The naemonstats utility allows you to obtain various information about a running Naemon process that can be very helpful in tuning performance. You can obtain information either in human-readable or MRTG-compatible format.
Usage Information
You can run the naemonstats utility with the --help option to get usage information.
Human-Readable Output
To obtain human-readable information on the performance of a running Naemon process, run the naemonstats utility with the -c command line argument to specify your main configuration file location like such:
[naemon@lanman ~]# /usr/local/naemon/bin/naemonstats -c /usr/local/naemon/etc/naemon.cfg
Naemon Stats 0.8.0
Copyright (c) 2013-present Naemon Development Team (www.naemon.io)
Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Ethan Galstad (www.nagios.org)
Last Modified: 02-13-2014
License: GPL
CURRENT STATUS DATA
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Status File: /usr/local/naemon/var/status.dat
Status File Age: 0d 0h 0m 9s
Status File Version: 0.8.0
Program Running Time: 0d 5h 20m 39s
Naemon PID: 10119
Used/High/Total Command Buffers: 0 / 0 / 64
Used/High/Total Check Result Buffers: 0 / 7 / 512
Total Services: 95
Services Checked: 94
Services Scheduled: 91
Services Actively Checked: 94
Services Passively Checked: 1
Total Service State Change: 0.000 / 78.950 / 1.026 %
Active Service Latency: 0.000 / 4.272 / 0.561 sec
Active Service Execution Time: 0.000 / 60.007 / 2.066 sec
Active Service State Change: 0.000 / 78.950 / 1.037 %
Active Services Last 1/5/15/60 min: 4 / 68 / 91 / 91
Passive Service State Change: 0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 %
Passive Services Last 1/5/15/60 min: 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
Services Ok/Warn/Unk/Crit: 58 / 16 / 0 / 21
Services Flapping: 1
Services In Downtime: 0
Total Hosts: 24
Hosts Checked: 24
Hosts Scheduled: 24
Hosts Actively Checked: 24
Host Passively Checked: 0
Total Host State Change: 0.000 / 9.210 / 0.384 %
Active Host Latency: 0.000 / 0.446 / 0.219 sec
Active Host Execution Time: 1.019 / 10.034 / 2.764 sec
Active Host State Change: 0.000 / 9.210 / 0.384 %
Active Hosts Last 1/5/15/60 min: 5 / 22 / 24 / 24
Passive Host State Change: 0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 %
Passive Hosts Last 1/5/15/60 min: 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
Hosts Up/Down/Unreach: 18 / 4 / 2
Hosts Flapping: 0
Hosts In Downtime: 0
Active Host Checks Last 1/5/15 min: 9 / 52 / 164
Scheduled: 4 / 23 / 75
On-demand: 3 / 23 / 69
Cached: 2 / 6 / 20
Passive Host Checks Last 1/5/15 min: 0 / 0 / 0
Active Service Checks Last 1/5/15 min: 9 / 80 / 244
Scheduled: 9 / 80 / 244
On-demand: 0 / 0 / 0
Cached: 0 / 0 / 0
Passive Service Checks Last 1/5/15 min: 0 / 0 / 0
External Commands Last 1/5/15 min: 0 / 0 / 0
[naemon@lanman ~]#As you can see, the utility displays a number of different metrics pertaining to the Naemon process. Metrics which have multiple values are (unless otherwise specified) min, max and average values for that particular metric.
MRTG Integration
You can use the naemonstats utility to display various Naemon metrics using MRTG (or other compatible program). To do so, run the naemonstats utility using the --mrtg and --data arguments. The --data argument is used to specify what statistics should be graphed. Possible values for the --data argument can be found by running the naemonstats utility with the --help option.
NOTE
Information on using the naemonstats utility to generate MRTG graphs for Naemon performance statistics can be found here.