perfdata-file not working the same since upgrade from 3.0.2 to 3.3.1

[Michael Friedrich]

On 2011-09-06 21:35, Joe Hoot wrote:
> Yep.  I had seen your post earlier and was hoping that there was an additional variable that I could add to tell nagios to include non-perfdata information in that file.  This is a shame.  In the past, my Nagios upgrades have went very smoothly.
>
> Thanks for the reply.   I am now happily up and running again on 3.2.3

I've been tracking down this problem already in Icinga 1.3.x and 
provided a proper fix for our users. Unless there's a properly tested 
3.3.x release you might wanna check my github branches for nagios 3.3.1 
fixes. it's nothing official, but just a little help from the "other 
evil side named Icinga" me being a core dev there too.

https://github.com/dnsmichi/nagios-fixed/commits/3.3.1-fixes

feel free to test and/or use that and provide feedback on the nagios 
lists if any.

kind regards,
michael


> On Sep 6, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote:
>
>>
>> On 06.09.2011 18:36, Joe Hoot wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I recently upgraded from Nagios Core 3.0.2 to 3.3.1.  Once upgraded, I noticed that my nagiosgraph wasn't graphing data from some custom checks that I wrote.  After further investigation, it turns out that nagiosgraph isn't seeing of the output from my check commands.  This information used to go to my service_perfdata_file.
>>>
>>> I have the following template setup:
>>>
>>> service_perfdata_file_template=$LASTSERVICECHECK$||$HOSTNAME$||$SERVICEDESC$||$SERVICEOUTPUT$||$SERVICEPERFDATA$
>>>
>>>
>>> And that has worked just fine for nagiosgraph to pull that information and parse it in order to fill rrd data.  But now that I've upgraded to 3.3.1, I don't appear to be seeing any of my custom commands (ones that don't have perfdata) in that file.  And upon investigating more, if I include perfdata in my custom commands, it sends to that perfdata_file just fine.  but if the performance data isn't there, it doesn't show up in that file.
>> nagios 3.3.1 does not process empty perfdata macros anymore which causes
>> those results not to be put onto the perfdata channel. so all your
>> plugins not returning perfdata won't even be put over there where
>> nagiosgraph and other addons might calculate their perfdata from the
>> output themselves.
>>
>>> Is this a bug?
>> i consider it a bug as it breaks compatibility. previous discussions on
>> nagios-* mailinglists can be found in the archive. dunno when this will
>> get fixed.
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg36537.html
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.devel/8128
>>
>> i'd suggest downgrading onto 3.2.3 and wait for a properly tested 3.3.x
>> release.
>>
>> kind regards,
>> Michael
>>
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