AW: Possible bug in performace data

Andreas Ericsson ae at op5.se
Tue Nov 23 10:54:24 CET 2004


Ben Clewett wrote:
> Thanks for the second opinion.  None of my plugins have 'quotes'. :)
> 
> You are using the --with-file-perfdata make option?
> 

I don't use perfdata at all. I was just mentioning a possible design 
thingie which may or may not be true and may or may not work.

> 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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