What is "Fast status log parsing"?

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Hello Everyone,

I am new to Oreon. I have successfully setup oreon with graphing after converting from Nagios 1.4.1 and Nagmin to Nagios 2.9 and Oreon 1.4.

So far things appear to be going pretty well, but I have a question? What is "Fast status log parsing"?

I greatly appreciate your feedback.

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[nasadave]

Just from reverse engineering the code, it looks like it is a means to change the way it reads the status.log file. Currently this is how nagios 2x write the status log:

service {
host_name=yadda
service_description=Website yadda
modified_attributes=0
check_command=check_website!yadda
event_handler=
has_been_checked=1
......

Fast log expects there to be a file named status.log_light that has 1 line per service, host, etc.... so the above would look like:

service#yadda#Website yada#0#check_website!yadda##1 ....etc

To get the status.log_light file, I had to write my own C++ program to create it, and it is called from the "Service Performance Data File Processing Command" every 10 seconds.

This reduced the processing time by 2 to 3 times on the service page. I don't know why there is little to no documentation on this option. There may already be a program to create this file, but I couldn't find it or figure out how oreon intended it to work.... but this seems to work ok.

[rom]

Yes, it's use to increase perf in monitoring part, but it's strange that the command isn't available. I don't use it yet but as far as I know, you have to schedule the command launch with the crontab.