From 4935556f1cd345b2ecbe6eab0f0ca99d87e0206b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Harl Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:33:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] README.Debian, control: Added some notes about Gearman mode. --- debian/README.Debian | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ debian/control | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian index a275abd..5364f0a 100644 --- a/debian/README.Debian +++ b/debian/README.Debian @@ -1,6 +1,13 @@ PNP4Nagios for Debian --------------------- +PNP4Nagios supports several modes of operation. They differ in the way how +performance data is being processed and, thus, the efficiency of PNP. Detailed +documentation is available at . + +Using bulk mode +--------------- + We recommend to use bulk mode with NPCD and npcdmod. This will facilitate an easy installation and fast processing of performance data. To enable NPCD, set 'RUN' to 'yes' in /etc/default/npcd. @@ -30,3 +37,15 @@ For more information and different modes of operation, see . -- Sven Velt Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:55:35 +0000 + +Using Gearman mode +------------------ + +Starting with version 0.6.12, PNP4Nagios may operate as a Gearman worker. This +is useful in large, distributed setups using Nagios's mod_gearman. To enable +the PNP Gearman worker, set 'RUN' to 'yes' in /etc/default/pnp_gearman_worker. +Also, you'll need a running mod_gearman environment. See + for detailed setup +instructions. + + -- Sebastian Harl Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:32:52 +0200 diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 962bd80..490714b 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -32,7 +32,11 @@ Description: Nagios addon to create graphs from performance data (binaries) plugins and stores them automatically into Round Robin Databases (RRD). It fully integrates itself into the Nagios Monitoring Website. . - PNP's goal is to be easily configurable and maintainable. + PNP's goal is to be easily configurable and maintainable. It supports several + modes of operation. When using the Gearman mode, some additional Perl modules + are required: Gearman::Worker, MIME::Base64, and Crypt::Rijndael which are + available in the libgearman-client-perl, perl, and libcrypt-rijndael-perl + packages. . This package contains the NPCD-related binaries and process_perfdata.pl. -- 2.30.2