Small request for later version of Nagios.

[Ben Clewett]

Dear Nagios,

I hope this is the right place for a request for a new feature.

I am processing the performance data from Nagios, for permanent storage 
and analysis for my little PerfParse project. 
(http://perfparse.sourceforge.net)

The service log gives me the time, host, service, plugin output and 
performance data.  One thing it does not give me is the condition of the 
result.  Whether it was critical, warning, unknown or OK.

This can sometimes be worked out from the performance data, or if the 
output contains the string 'OK'.  But this is not rigorous.  Some 
plugins do not produce performance data, some that do don't give the 
warning and critical thresholds.  Others don't give a text output which 
can be parsed.  Eg, the MySQL output does not contain 'OK' or anything 
else.  Or what should 'Connection refused by host' be interperated as, 
warning or critical?

I would therefore with respect, ask that the state of the service be 
included in the serviceperf.log file, for the use of programs like mine 
attempting to record an accurate history of Nagios.

Thanks again for such a good program in Nagios!

Ben Clewett.




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