On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:55 AM,  <no-re...@cfengine.com> wrote:
>
> Aleksey, I agree about subsuming.  Most things that I depended on Nagios for 
> in the past have been largely taken up by CFEngine.  We still have many 
> double checks, but this is largely for dependencies and because Nagios is 
> more visible.
>
> Where Nagios is very valuable to me is that I have it watching a mailbox with 
> a procmail rule.  CFEngine emails go here and are translated into passive 
> check output for a Nagios service (AP:CF3:Output) on each host.  This way we 
> can have multiple people get cfengine reports as needed.

Nice!  What kind of things do you check and report?  Anything you can share?

And how does the Nagios procmail check work, do you just check for
presence or absence, or do you extract a numeric value and compare it
to thresholds?

Aleksey
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