PerfParse

A: Both.

PerfParse will store and graph performance data (Binary Data) for any unbound time period. You can store data for the lifetime of your servers without issue.

It will also store the original (Raw Data). This can be filtered and viewed in a similar way to Nagios.

You can also obtain a history report of raw data showing statistics and a Gant chart of activity. Unlike the Nagios 'View History For This Host/Service' this takes seconds and not hours. :)

Tim Wuyts has also completed some work to store long term summary data which I hope will make the main product one day.

Ben

A: Nagios uses apache .htaccess files. So if you place the perfparse binaries within the nagios directories as the perfparse installation document describes, then report viewing is protected.

A: Can you check your nagios.cfg and look for this line:

illegal_macro_output_chars=`~$&|'"<>

If it exists, please change to:

illegal_macro_output_chars=`~$&|"<>

Your plugin is correct to the specification, but Nagios is not correct to it's own specification :)