[Perfparse-devel] Nagios plugin real execution date (for performance data)

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

Hi !

This is rather for perfparse-devel, but the question may concern nagios-d=
evel so I post
there too.

When a plugin ends, we have the execution date in $TIMET$ macro of the pl=
ugin. That date
is usually the date when the plugin got the data.

However, there are cases when the data is somewhere (in a log file for ex=
ample) with a
timestamp, and the plugin gets the data with the timestamp. In such a cas=
e, I don't need
the date from $TIMET$, but the timestamp that the plugin scanned.

For perfparse, there is an easy way to do it: the plugin can return the t=
imestamp as
performance data, for example:
plugin output | TIMET=3D1093338402 key1=3Dvalue1;warn1;crit1
key2=3Dvalue2UOM;warn2;crit2;min2;max2 ...

With such a line, perfparse would understand that it has to take the valu=
e from the
plugin TIMET performance data and not from the nagios $TIMET$ macro. TIME=
T would become
a keyword for perfparse. This can also become a specification for perform=
ance data in
nagios.

Guys at perfparse project, do you think that I can implement this ?
Guys at nagios project, is this the way to do it, or is there a better wa=
y ?

Yves (coder on perfparse)


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