Monitoring over Time with Nagios: How?

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Published on 2011-02-09T20:52:06Z Indexed on 2011/02/09 23:27 UTC
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Nagios in its standard usage monitors with point-in-time checks: either something is - or is not - true.

Other tools like SGI's PCP, HP's MeasureWare, and SEC provide monitoring over time - monitoring things like average disk access time over the last five minutes, or other similar items. Is there anything like this for Nagios? I'm already running NDOUtils, which seems like a natural source for such data.

I'd like to have something that would monitor and fire off alarms based on a time-based check using historical data. Is there anything like this for Nagios?

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