Re: introduction and: does 'exec' cache the results?
Ryan Steele <[email protected]>
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Einar Indridason wrote: > Good morning folks. I'm new here - I don't even know how much traffic is on > this list, if any. > > I'm constructing a Cricket config to monitor our Nagios monitoring system, > and I'm basically running nagiostat -m > -dLOTS,OF,Arguments,here,to,pull,info,from,nagios. To do that, I have > several lines like this: > ds-source = "exec:XX:%nagarg%" > > where XX is a running number. > > Now, the question I have is this: > Does cricket run the %nagarg% command once, and caches it? Or is the > %nagarg% run approximately 60 times? > XX is actually the line number of the response. If each XX is getting its information from the same resource (e.g., a perl script returning 60 values), Cricket will pool the responses. Basically, it runs once. If you invoke the poller with -logLevel debug, you'll see that it execs %ngarg% only once. Best, Ryan > Cheers, and thanks in advance, > -- > EinarI > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > cricket-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cricket-users > -- Ryan Steele Systems Administrator [email protected] AgoraNet, Inc. (302) 224-2475 314 E. Main Street, Suite 1 (302) 224-2552 (fax) Newark, DE 19711 http://www.agora-net.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV