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Tony_Augustine_
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Nov 12, 2008

How to persist monitor data or how to records server downtime over a period

Our aim is to record the availability/outage of our servers over a period of time(eg for a month). Traffic to these servers are routed through BIG-IP LTM. We have monitors setup in F5 to monitor the a...
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Tony_Augustine_
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Nov 13, 2008
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Thanks a lot for your input.It is very valuable. I need to download and play around with Cacti and Nagios. Can you tell me either of them have some sort of persistence mechanism (databse or something like that) so that I can pull out the data even after years. The reason is as per SLA, we need to prove it to our client that our services where up & running 99.9% of the time. Also can we configure the polling frequency with Cacti or Nagios according to our requirements.

 

 

thanks again

 

Tony