AW: Possible bug in performace data

[Ben Clewett]

Andreas,

Thanks for the second opinion.  None of my plugins have 'quotes'. :)

You are using the --with-file-perfdata make option?

Cheers,

Ben

Husch Andreas wrote:

> Hi,
> this works fine for me, my output in the serviceperf.log file looks like this:
> 1099034929      tizian  CPULOAD CPU Load 36% (5 min average)    OK         '5 min avg Load'=36%;70;90;0;100
> 
> I'm using Nagios 1.2 too.
> 
> Regards
> Andreas
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: nagios-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] Im Auftrag von Ben Clewett
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. November 2004 10:02
> An: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Betreff: [Nagios-devel] Possible bug in performace data
> 
> 
> Dear members, I have has the following possible bug reported to me.  Can anybody clarify this?  Regards, Ben.
> 
> I'm having the following problem with Nagios in combination with the perfparse tool:
> 
> When a certain check generates performance data with space characters in the metric with single quotes around them, the single quotes *disappear* when the information is written to the perfdata-service.log file. As a result, the performance data gets parsed incorrectly by perfparse.
> 
> For example, if I do the following check manually:
> $ check_nt -H rlswas1c -v CPULOAD -l 5,50,90 The result is something like:
> CPU Load 0% (5 min average) |'5 min avg Load'=0%;50;90;0;100 Notice the single quotes around '5 min avg Load'.
> 
> However, if I let Nagios do the check, the following data appears in the perfdata-service.log file:
> 1101131232      rlswas1c        CPU load        CPU Load 0% (5 min average)
> OK         5 min avg Load=0%;50;75;0;100
> Notice that there are NO single quotes around '5 min avg Load'.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea where the quotes are being dropped and what I can do about it?
> 
> I'm using:
> Nagios 1.2
> PerfParse 0.103.1
> A recent CVS snapshot of Nagios-plugins
> 
> 
> 
> 
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