Re: [munin-users] Ability to alert on NaN

[Nicolai L. <ja...@li...>]

Moses Moore wrote:
> On a related note, something that I always thought was a gross
> oversight was munin-limit ignoring NaN values.  If I want to
> know when a machine's ping time exceeds a certain value,
> sometimes the ping utility will timeout because the ping time is
> 30s; then pingtime == NaN.  That should be a critical error -- 
> instead I get NaN and munin-limit thinks it's fine.

*nod* We have a ticket for this: http://munin.projects.linpro.no/ticket/43

> Can I tell set something in the config block of a plugin to
> tell munin-limit to treat NaN as exceeding a warning or
> critical threshold?  Or, is this feature already present and
> I'm the one overlooking something?

There is a suggestion for starting the normal range at 0.01 in the ticket.

Otherwise a source code change is needed I'm afraid.

Nicolai