Performance values, what to use? (Was: Documentation Error)

[Karl DeBisschop]

Ben Clewett wrote:

> All systems have to use the same format, as specified in the documentation:
> 
> http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html#AEN185
>
> Unfortunately there are holes in this documentation.  I have also seen 
> requests to amend this documentation to add more features, and patch up 
> the holes.

I have somehow missed these discussions.

> Which have been, for what ever reason, ignored by these news groups.
> 
> I would personally like to see NULL, -INF and +INF supported as possible 
> values.  Which PP and RRD can use in their own ways. :)

I do not remember seeing any concrete proposals to that effect. But I 
would generally support the addition of token to represent these values.

Bear in mind that perfdata is not always numeric - it may be a string 
value. So what ever means are used to encode a token for the above cases 
must be distinquishable from a text value of (say) NULL that a moniroed 
application might return.

-- 
Karl


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