Re: [Perfparse-devel] nagios-3.0a and plugin output

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

Hi all

> There was a discussion about performance output changes on the
> nagiosplug-devel list a couple of weeks ago.
> Ton and me called for input from performance addon developers - no reply.

Too bad that I was not in nagiosplug-devel list :(

>> > TEXT OUTPUT | OPTIONAL PERFDATA
>> > LONG TEXT LINE 1
>> > LONG TEXT LINE 2
>
> I think Ethan told sth like "I think this won't break anything" at the
> Nagios Conference last year.
> That's true if only the first line is interpreted.

Not as true as you think...
The problem is that "first line" with no definition of a separator for the end of
events, means "first line of a stream of events", not "first line of an event".
So yes, it will break nothing. But with LONG TEST LINE X containing a pipe (for
multiline perf data) will also be parsed as events. And perf data following the 1st LONG
TEST LINE X with a pipe do not contain a pipe so they will be ignored. Is it acceptable
to have more but not all perf data parsed ? :)

Is there anybody who can make things change in Nagios before nagios-3.0-stable ?
If not, how can we do ?


Yves

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