[Perfparse-devel] Re: Storing the STATE from Nagios.

[Yves M. <yme...@li...>]

> Yves and others:

I can't do it right now... too many things else to do...

> A request to store the plugin state has been requested, the macro name
> is: $SERVICESTATE$, from http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/macros.=
html

A request has been requested ? Funny :)

Well, after reading the doc, I still don't get it. Where exactly do we ge=
t that value ?

> This is probably an oversite not to store this from version 0.01 :)
>
> For some time in the near future, suggest:
>
> 1. Changing perfparse to expect this macro.
> 2. Adding a field to the raw data table to store this value.

Well... you can do basic support in 0.0.12 and people will not have to up=
date their
database twice ?
1/ add the field in the database
2/ adapt the tools not to crash with this new field
3/ update convert.c

Then perfparse will feed the database with a default value. This makes wo=
rk easier for
after.

> 3. Changing perfparse to scan 'nagios.cfg' to check Nagios is using the
> correct format, and exit on error if not correct.
> 4. Updating the raw data report to display this value.
> 5. Including a 'configure' definition of where to expect the Nagios
> 'etc' directory., default /usr/local/nagios/etc.

In 0.0.13 or after ?

> I also note that development time is very tight for all involved.  If
> there is anybody on this mailing list who wants to submit a patch, I
> would be very interested in hearing from them.

Not me for while: other things to do before...

Yves

>
> Regards,
>
> Ben.
>
>


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