new plugin can i send here for peer review?

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On 16 Jan 2003, Karl DeBisschop wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 10:52, jgking at packetstorm.org wrote:
> > Well if check_snmp allowed me to do something like this i would be set:
> > 
> > ./check_snmp -H localhost -C ***** -o a.a.a.a,b.b.b.b -func "($1/$2) * 100 
> > > 90"
> > 
> > Where the OID order determines $1,$2 etc
> > 
> > so I could use oids for disk usage where a.a.a.a would be current usage, 
> > b.b.b.b is total space available
> 
> That is exactly the sort of functionality I'd like to have directly in
> check_snmp.
> 
> That's been on my long-term plan for some time now. So I'm suggesting
> that you'd get what you want into the distribution quickest by helping
> develop that sort of generalized engine for check_snmp. It will be there
> someday, so let's just do it once.
> 

Exactly - I think if we agree to support only one math/arithmetic function 
and use a,b,c,... as place holders for the value, it should definitely be 
in the generalized engine.
 
-- 

-sg



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