[check_postgres] New to check_postgres

[Greg Sabino Mullane]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 03:16:04PM -0400, Mark Steben wrote:
> Hi,  Just downloaded check_postgres yesterday.
> 
> Playing around with it today.  My main question is:
>   Is the NAGIOs output mode the only mode where I get entire output?
>   When I run CHECK_POSTGRES_BLOAT in MRTG mode all I get
>   are the 4 lines of output the first being the bloat amount of the most
> bloated table.
>   With NAGIOs I get all the tables with bloat but the output is streamed in
> one line.
>   I'd like to get outputs of all the bloated tables in a nice formatted
> report.
>   Do I need to download NAGIOS to do that?

No - the output is simply in Nagios format by default. There is no way to 
view some actions in a pretty format - but perhaps there should be.

> Are there any 'getting started' instructions I can look at?

Nothing other than the wiki, I'm afraid.

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg at endpoint.com
End Point Corporation
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